On Sat, 2012-01-28 at 15:31 +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote: > Ubuntu has apparently taken steps to fix the problem, Debian can > probably use the same code, and OpenSUSE can use the RPM I made and > linked to earlier in the thread as a basis to fixing the problem. > > You call me disrespectful and qualify my attitude as cavalier. It's > anything but. There are many ways to solve this problem, and plenty that > don't involve e-mails to me or reverting commits I made. I'd like those > to be contemplated.
It is about email - just doing "git log plugins/datetime/" one can see the people who had contributed to that code, and as far as I can see, they were not all notified that it was just going to be deleted. Not all of these people watch bugzilla for g-s-d consistently. For example both Michael Terry and Vincent Untz had contributed to the code, but they seemed surprised. And they contribute to GNOME, and for them it's a regression. That's the point here - we need to minimize regressions. No one wants to be part of a project where other people come along and either unintentionally or intentionally remove/break code that you wrote that worked. And this is just shuffling around where the date/time code lives. It's hard to describe it as a new, compelling addition to Free Software. Anyways I don't want to drag this out more than it already is - if the affected people are OK implementing a DBus service, then that works. But if they feel e.g. that it's easier for them to keep the mechanism code around and have control-center talk to it, we should at least consider that perspective, because that code worked before, and could continue working. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list