Re: Gnome-Office as part of GNOME?

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 22:42 +1100, msevior physics unimelb edu au wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>          I've been corresponding with Jeff Waugh, (GNOME release-poobar),
> regarding including new modules into gnome. My original
> motivation was to get Divifund into gnome.
> 
> Jeff reseponded by asking why not have a gnome-office release timed to
> coincide with the regular 6-month GNOME release?
> 
> I talked about the need to have more than 3 months development time
> between releases.
> 
> Here is his response below. So as far as I can see, all we have to do is
> provide pointers to our latest "stable" tarballs every time Jeff asks for
> new tarballs.
> 
> I personally think this is a great idea. It has hardly any impact on our
> development schedule and provides a set of reference snapshots for distros
> to include in their releases.
> 
it is indeed a great idea

> It also gives aspiring gnome-office applications like criawps, present,
> planner, mergeant, conglomerate and Divifund a reference and a level of
> completeness to aspire to.
> 
> I'm perfectly happy to volenteer AbiWord stable tarballs (starting with
> AbiWord-2.2.0) as a gnome-office component of the GNOME desktop and
> development platform.
> 
> Are there any objections?
> 
> What do gnumeric hackers think?
> 
> Can we also do this for libgoffice?
> 
> How about gnome-DB?
> 
we were planning to follow GNOME releases, and was indeed the plan for
1.2, but since we didn't have a strong commitment on the dates, we
postponed 1.2 a few weeks.

But I'd be happy to commit on following the GNOME release schedules from
now on, so count on my vote.
-- 
Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>