Re: About The GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initative

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 15:19 +0200, Thilo Pfennig wrote:
> I have thought long about this initiative. I would not generally
> consider this a bad thing, but:
> 
> a) I do not like that this was not discussed at all in the marketing
> list. Such major things and announcement have to be discussed with at
> least the marketing team
> b) I fear that this is in fact a movement away from the desktop
> platform. I would rahther have suggested to found a new organisation
> to do this because mobile devices are not really desktops.
> c) In relation to that i fear that this binds ressources that
> otherwise would have been there for the core desktop.

The GMAE is just a way to consolidate existing GNOME embedded/mobile
work. It's not a change of resource allocation. Hopefully it will reduce
some resource wastage.

It's not a new direction for GNOME and shouldn't be perceived as one.

> I know - many things are now developed for embedded devices already
> and I also think that his is nice and cool but this truely is a whole
> different issue. We even did not manage to get our web site updated in
> time, wether for GNOME 2.18 nor 2.18.1 - so still many core tasks are
> not solved and yet we are going into new directions without further
> consultation of the marketing team.
> 
> I would like to know how this decision was made and why. And if you
> really think that GNOME can really develop two platforms (mostly
> standard desktop and embedded). I dont think so. And to me it looks
> like GNOME changes direction.
> 
> 
> Thilo
> 
> PS: At least we should discuss now what this really means for us now.
> And what it means for marketing GNOME.
> -- 
> Thilo Pfennig
> http://issues.foresightlinux.org/confluence/x/R
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