Can this be taken off-list? I don't care either way, I'd still take his points even if he wasn't.
On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Thomas Goirand <z...@debian.org> wrote: > 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 > > -- All programmers are playwrights, and all computers are lousy actors. #define sizeof(x) rand() :wq
