On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 11:41:08AM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > Le jeudi 19 mai 2011 à 10:53 +0200, Olav Vitters a écrit : > > That is perfectly valid advice. You need various things in your > > distribution to help GNOME development. I would not advise anyone to > > use Ubuntu anymore when they want to get involved with GNOME.
> Could you give some details on what is the issue with running Ubuntu and > contributing to GNOME? Several active GNOME contributors are running I've seen a lot of people on IRC and during the 3.0 party saying the 3.0 PPA killed their Ubuntu. Or that their had a lot of difficulty to get a jhbuild going. I cannot help them. And I noticed a lot of these issues going unanswered. So my conclusion is that it is better to suggest something else. > Ubuntu, do you means they are not welcome to contribute to GNOME because > of the distribution they decided to use? No, not at all what I meant. That would be really really bad. Just that if someone asks on #gnome which distribution to start his jhbuild on, I'd make clear that Ubuntu would mean a lot of difficulties. Before anyone misunderstands, I'd give the same advice about e.g. Mandriva. Oh, and Ubuntu is based upon what I read (IRC and so on) + feedback during the 3.0 party, not personal experience. > If the issue is that we didn't integrate GNOME3 previous cycle it's not > like we are the only distribution around which didn't do it, not a lot > of distribution shipped a stable version yet with GNOME3. We are landing > GNOME3 in the current unstable serie which just opened though. That's the issue. When that changes, my advice will change. On IRC in #gnome and #gnome-love you sometimes get people who just started a jhbuild. At the moment I'd advice using either openSuse or Fedora. That will differ with time. This is driven by giving the best advice for people who ask for advice. Meaning: how to best solve things *now*. If I see for example blogposts on p.g.o. saying that Ubuntu 'unstable' now has an awesome GNOME 3.0 stack and it doesn't result in problems + easily installable, then my advice would change. Same for Mandriva (planned after new stable release). Lastly, I don't care about distribution defaulting to KDE, Unity, XFCE or GNOME. My interest is GNOME and what advice would be best (to do development on + ensure they can get answers). Getting a full jhbuild to work is still difficult enough. -- Regards, Olav _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list