On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 03:16:41PM +0200, Dave Neary wrote: > I echo what Evandro's saying. > > If someone is coming to IRC asking how to get GNOME 3 compiled, or how > they can contribute to GNOME, and you're leading with "change > distributions", that's potentially very damaging.
I don't see it that way. > For a start, you're a member of the release team, so people could take > this as official GNOME policy. And for a second thing, it could be I am the way I am. I use Mandriva and I'd like to switch to Mageia. I think it is a great distribution though I find the GNOME3 situation really unfortunate at the moment. There will be confusion between devel-announce-list emails + emails where I say 'we (release-team)' and my personal opinions. My intend is to be as clear as possible but within reason. I find it sad that in this thread all kinds of fully things are being discussed about things I might or might not say when I help someone. One small comment that perhaps remarks seen on IRC are not meant as negative as they might be interpreted, and now I am questioned on my behaviour?!? I find this pretty sad. > perceived as "Ubuntu users can't contribute to GNOME". I never said anything like that. When Seb asked if it might be my belief, I clarified *immediately*. I cannot control what people might or might not interpret. I think about it within reason. Other than that: it happens anyway. I've said a few times that I don't care about $DISTRO (fill in whatever). It appears to be due to the amount of replies that this is still perceived as "Ubuntu is evil". Really, I try to avoid such things (within reason), but it seems to happen anyway. > If you don't know how to get GNOME 3 working on Ubuntu, or how to > contribute on Ubuntu, perhaps that's what you should say (and let > someone else help). I agree that people might misinterpret things. But it seems to be occurring anyway. Some stuff is really too political. E.g. I can say whatever I think about Mandriva and I get nothing. -- Regards, Olav _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list