On 10/26/2013 09:17 PM, Olav Vitters wrote: > On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 12:02:00AM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: >>> I'm fed up with repeated attempts to force components on the rest of the >>> system, but that's mostly a fault of Gnome's upstream >> >> There seems to be a trend emanating from packages involving RedHat devs. >> I actually went to the RedHat site a few weeks ago to try and get some >> sort of oversight on this but there seemed to be no appropriate contact >> point (bookmarked). > > There are various maintainers+developers who would love to see GNOME > support Wayland and nothing more. This due to code complexity and test > matrix (too many different options and it becomes difficult to test > things). And we do do continuous integration, plus I had to deal with > the bugs caused by the introduction of Wayland support. > > Various of above mentioned maintainers/developers are sponsored by Red > Hat. I say sponsored because they pretty much do what they think is > good. I have not seen any corporate agenda (I also fail to understand > why we have so many of them). Anyway, they just don't want code > complexity. > > The *main* reason that GNOME will keep Wayland + X compatibility for a > long time, thus introducing more bugs and slowing down full Wayland > support, is the same GNOME release team person who urged to support > Wayland. He's sponsored by Red Hat. > > In brief: The person mainly responsible for allowing people to rely on > our X support for a much longer time is one of those Red Hat people. > > Not sure if you like Wayland or not, but something to keep in mind, if > it wasn't up to this Red Hat person, X support would be die much more > quickly. And this decision is not made due to forcing, it is to due > supporting one thing well, not multiple things a bit with various > degrees of testing and buggyness.
If you don't mind that I ask: are you a GNOME developer? Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/526d1a43.40...@debian.org