Re: Issuing a press release about GNOME 3

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Le jeudi 17 juillet 2008, à 15:40 +0200, Dave Neary a écrit :
> So, release team, opinions? I understand that Luis's rant (sorry Luis)
> may have been deflating

?othing related to Luis in my lack of reply -- just a general lack of
time :/ I'll reply to Luis because I think he's raising things that
other people might think too. Just need to find time to do all this.

> but I'm giving a lightning presentation on the
> State of GNOME at OSCon next week, and the 3.0 thing is bound to come up
> - I'd *really* like to be able to say something along the lines of "2
> years between major releases, 6 month between incremental releases, and
> we've started the first cycle of that already - the release team is
> working with maintainers & community to plan the major arc of features
> for 3.0".

So, here's what you can say, in my opinion:

 + this is only a proposal (still discussed within the community)
 + this is only a proposal (details might change)
 + this is an evolution, not a revolution
 + 2.5 years between major releases (although it's probably best to say
   2-3 years)
 + these longer cycles are also used to help contributors focus on a few
   key areas
 + we love the 6 months development cycle. It's been fantastic. We
   definitely want to keep it.
 + people should compare GNOME 3.0 with GNOME 2.20 and not GNOME 2.28.
 + (probably many other things)

I think it's too premature to say that this has been accepted, because
many people were not at GUADEC and haven't been able to comment. I
understand why you'd like to say so, though.

> PS. I'm still unclear about what opening the big tent means exactly -
> does it mean having a number of criteria, and any application meeting
> those criteria becomes part of GNOME? Does that imply abandoning the
> release sets?

Yes and yes. Still unsure how doable this is, but that's the idea.

Vincent

-- 
Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés.