Re: Timescale issues

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Derek Simkowiak <dereks@kd-dev.com> writes: 
> 	It would make sense to contact the primary maintainers of the
> major Linux distributions to see when their next releases are planned.  If
> we could time the release of 2.0 with the release of another major Redhat
> and/or Debian (et. al) release, it would reduce the distribution headache
> and give people like me an install base to target.
> 

There is very little chance that any of the commercial distributions
will tell you release dates, and Debian may tell you but won't make
the date. ;-)

> 	I'm mostly an applications developer, so from the perspective of
> the "user" I'd like to suggest not releasing a 1.4, and shooting for a 2.0
> release in April.

One consideration is that this probably means either delaying GNOME
2.0 by a few months, or not putting the new GTK in GNOME 2.0.

Havoc