Re: [draft] Planning for GNOME 3.0

[Luis Villa <luis tieguy org>]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Matthias Clasen
<matthias clasen gmail com> wrote:
>> Our six-month cycle works because we are making small, incremental
>> changes; while I admire the boldness of thinking such massive changes
>> are possible in a six month cycle, I also think you're crazy. Accept
>> right now that (unless there is massive investment in testing, and
>> probably even not then) this will absolutely not happen on calendar.
>
> Probably worth pointing out in the document (with links, etc) that
> both the gnome-shell and the zeitgeist effort are already underway for
> ~6 months and both have working code.

+1

And of course a timeline for moving zeitgeist out of a proprietary bug
tracking and translation tool would be good too. And discussion of the
usability design and user testing of both shell and zeitgeist would be
good too. (Because of course that is happening, right? right?)

>  So we are not talking about
> developing these things from scatch in a single cycle, but rather at
> getting them to a point where there are ready for consumption during
> the 2.27 cycle, and working on their integration in the desktop and
> apps in the 2.29  cycle.

My gut sense is that if the integration (and *testing* of the
integration) can be accomplished in one cycle then they haven't gone
far enough to be worth calling 3.0, but obviously I would love to be
wrong about that.

Luis