Re: my .plan

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 10:32:53AM -0500, dbolack%electricmulch com electricmulch com wrote:
> 
> The primary concern is recognising what is needed by GO, getting key
> application developers talking about aligning their projects with the
> goals of GO, and getting important people to interact in a productive
> way that sees a convergance and collaboration in the future.
> 
> ------
> 
>   And this is a necessary thing, but we also have to keep in mind that one
> of the desired goals in this incarnation is FOCUS.  By throughing every
> vaguely business/productity/office app in under the GnomeOffice Banner we
> end up with  the same kind of hodge-podge that languished before.
> 
>   While I think from a code standpoint, the shared code is most likely to
> be used by all, as opposed to a libgoffice, a libgart, etc. And from that
> perspective yes, it's one big suite.
> 
>   But we have to think just as far in advance about the ultimate
> presentation of the metaproject(s) and the internal and external issues
> they present.

At present the exact nature of what we've got and how they are
integrated is nebulous enough that it seems ignorable.  Lets try and
draw things together, coordinating releases, testing
interoperability, working to build shared code.