On Tue, Jun 03, 2014 at 03:06:46PM +0000, Mike Gabriel wrote: > o GNOME classic/fallback/flashback has become obsolete by upstream AFAIK
GNOME classic is maintained, it is a set of extensions against gnome-shell. Some distributions renamed fallback as classic, resulting in some confusion. > There are goods and bads about forked code. GNOMEv3 is a completely > different product compared to GNOMEv2. So, a fork at that time, like > it was done by the MATE people, absolutely made sense (to me). GNOMEv3 from a user perspective is completely different. On a package level, there aren't that many differences. MATE initially forked everything. But for a while now they've taken over maintenance of some components on git.gnome.org. IMO some time was wasted, but that's up to them. They're sticking around and I don't understand the focus of what people do. I don't think any of the MATE devs contributed to GNOME before starting MATE, so MATE resulted in a lot of new developers actively working on free software. That being said, I did complain for a while about some unneeded forks. Having critical people is also needed to improve things. -- Regards, Olav -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140604113513.ga13...@bkor.dhs.org
