2011/5/25 Frederic Peters <fpet...@gnome.org>: > 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?
The idea of seeing a GNOME OS coming out in the future as a full and complete desktop suite is simply awesome. Many technical and non-technical decisions that are now taken respecting all the parts (distributions, companies etc.) involved in the release procedures and decisions could be finally taken by the *GNOME* Foundation (by its members and developers) on its own. On the other side, changing GNOME’s definition from a desktop manager to a complete desktop suite takes in multiple technical issues (should we go for an RPM-based system or a DEB one? should we develop just for the Linux platform? and what about BSD? etc.) that will require a lot of months and efforts to happen. Please also note that I would love seeing GNOME being freely available to everyone as it is now, everyone should be able to grab GNOME’s sources and build their own distribution like it’s been happening for several years now. Having multiple distributions and flavours is definitely a big plus within the Open Source’s communities, all the contributors and developers should be able to choose where and how they want to contribute: seeing your ideals, values and ideas reflected in a specific contribution makes you willing to do your best to see it growing and being successful. That said, I think this is not an issue to be fully discussed within the GNOME Board of Directors, it’s a decision that should be taken by the whole GNOME Foundation i ncluding *all* his members, contributors and developers together. (i.e through a referendum) In the end, as pointed out by a few other candidates this is actually just a proposal and many discussions should take place within the Release Team and all the maintainers involved to evaluate all the way this possibility, its pros and its cons to find out which decision will *really* benefit our beloved project. thanks, Andrea _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list