On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Patryk Zawadzki <pat...@pld-linux.org> wrote: >> The long term plan for the GNOME applications that were removed from the >> Desktop, Admin and Dev Tools modulesets is to simply highlight the >> high-quality >> applications using the GNOME platform through our communication channels >> (release notes, website, etc). There will be no "official" apps anymore and >> no >> 'Applications' moduleset in the GNOME releases. The goal here is be more open >> with the app developer community around GNOME and to highlight all the nice >> things that can be created using our platform. > > And this might do the exact opposite of what we all want it to do. > Instead of sending a "you are now all equal" message it might > communicate that "you are now equally not worthy". Or just "you are > now on the same level" even if the level of integration and sheer > polish is nowhere to be compared. > > It will also kill the "magic moment" I experienced twice - once when I > helped Daniel with Cheese and a second time when hacking on Hasmter > with Toms. The moment that comes after weeks of mad hacking when you > decide your work is finally good enough to become part of GNOME.
Forgot to mention: not having a single release schedule will also make it very hard for app authors to propose, track and depend on features of the underlying platform or - even worse - features introduced in other apps. -- Patryk Zawadzki _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list