A lot of people at Gran Canaria Desktop Summit are asking about getting Do into GNOME, and I am having trouble seeing the benefit for us. Switching to Git/GNOME infrastructure strikes me as a step in the wrong direction, but people are interested so I thought I would share this with the list to see if anyone has thoughts.
http://live.gnome.org/ReleasePlanning/ModuleProposing Here is my understanding of the situation: for the last ten years, GNOME made all of its own applications. In recent years, independent application authors emerged from the GNOME community, developing applications on their own but with the intent of eventually getting them into GNOME. When I started Do, I just wanted to create a great free software application that was fun, exciting to hack, and incredibly useful. Together we have built an incredible project, with hundreds of thousands of active users, awesome contributors, excellent development and design practices, distro adoption, and vision. When people started suggesting GNOME inclusion, I said "GNOME can do whatever it wants, just like the distros -- if they want to include Do, go for it." Then I was told that inclusion in GNOME would put extra work commitments on us, and put extra constraints on details like where we host our website and wiki, where our source lives, how we handle bugs and translations, etc. I am all for GNOME inclusion, but I think our project should operate completely independently of the GNOME project, not be absorbed by it. As far as I can tell, our project doesn't need GNOME oversight, endorsement, or infrastructure. If extra work needs to be done for GNOME inclusion, GNOME contributors should do that work. Thoughts? David --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GNOME Do" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gnome-do?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
