Re: Draft of 3.0 schedule

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Frederic Peters <fpeters gnome org> wrote:
> Andre Klapper wrote:
>
>> Is GNOME 2.30 a normal, stable release with incremental updates, or is
>> GNOME 2.30 a preview for GNOME 3? I think it is the first, but this is
>> NOT totally clear currently (at least it wasn't today in the #a11y
>> meeting).
>
> FWIW I saw 2.30 as yet another normal release, with incremental
> updates, even if, just like 2.28, it will already contain changes
> to accomodate the 3.0 goal (like Nautilus switching to browser mode
> by default).

We simply cannot get to 3.0 if we keep doing 'normal incremental'
releases of 2.x.
At least not without falling into the KDE 4 trap.