On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 01:28:41AM +0200, Pascal Bleser wrote: > From a technical point-of-view, this mail would belong to > opensuse-packaging, but I'd like to address a more general problem, > which is why I post here. > > > I would really like to have an explanation: why is it that other > distributions (e.g. Fedora and Ubuntu) already have packages for (at > least) GNOME 2.14 but none are provided for SUSE Linux ? > GNOME supplementary still ships 2.12.
I guess you can expect them soon. Factory development was opened a week ago and I guess you can expect also updated GNOME packages soon, both in Factory and supplementary. (supplementary is in regards to KDE/GNOME usually kept in sync with the Factory versions, to avoid the double integration work(. > And now, the "general problem": I just don't see ex-Ximian people > involved into openSUSE at all. Well, lets list some of the most visible for 10.1 development: Garry Ekker and Stanislav Brabec, GNOME packagers. Robert Love, NetworkManager... You like it in 10.1, right? Larry Ewing, f-spot ... working nicely. Aaron Bockover, banshee ... working nicely and greatly enhanced for 10.1. Jeffrey Steadfast, gnome-volume-manager ... greatly enhanced for 10.1. Michael Meeks, OpenOffice_org ... nuff said. Joe Shaw, beagle. ... and more that I forgot. All of them contributed to 10.1, answered bugreports, etc etc, so they are definitely involved in openSUSE. > Do they actually know that their employer has its own distribution > called SUSE Linux ? Yes. > Miguel de Icaza is leading GNOME AFAIK, and Novell employs quite a lot > of GNOME developers.. so... where are the SUSE Linux packages ? Miguel is more in care of Mono. Nat is in care of the Desktop, focusing on the SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop. > This is really ridiculous. This is trollbait. > Try it yourself: spend some time on IRC in #suse or #opensuse and > explain to some folks why SUSE Linux, the distribution owned by the > company that has a lot of GNOME developers and even the GNOME lead on > its payroll, does not provide up-to-date GNOME packages. The answer is mostly because we focused and still focus on delivering 10.1 and SLE 10 as _stable_ product, and openSUSE supplementary and factory is of lower priority now. With the openSUSE buildservice you will likely no longer dependend on us providing the latest GNOME. Ciao, Marcus --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
