On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 08:24 +0200, Frederic Peters wrote: > Hello all, > > GNOME OS has been mentioned and questioned repeatedly in recent > discussions on desktop-devel-list, about its definition itself[1], > and the changing (or not?) role of the GNOME project with regards > to distributions (based or not on the Linux kernel). > > What are your thougths on this?[2] Do you think this is a foundation > job to answer those questions? If not, is this a responsibility of the > release team? Or something that is best left unanswered, as pieces are > put into positions by different persons? > I really think the GNOME OS idea is a very good one, that is, making GNOME provide access to configuration and features of the underlying OS, so that it is a complete desktop that can deal with everything the users would ever need from a desktop.
But at the same time we have people from OSes other than Linux interested in using GNOME, so I think we should take those into account, even if their developers don't work on making GNOME work on those OSes as actively as the Linux crowd. So, I think we should not be targetting only Linux, but make the developer communities of those OSes more active in GNOME. More people helping can just lead to a better GNOME. As for who makes the decision, since it's a technical thing, it's up to the release team/maintainers/future technical board (if any), but I think the board should be really giving the message that any UNIX-based OS is supported in GNOME, and make it easier for the developers of those other kernels to provide their own versions of the Linux-only stuff used in GNOME (by talking to them so that they get engaged in technical discussions) When Linux-only stuff is needed in GNOME, like systemd, I think, as discussed in the thread, clear-defined interfaces should be provided so that people from other kernels can easily implement what is needed. _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list