On 22 Sep 2000, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > > > Hi guys, > > A bunch of use (including me and Jacob and the steering committee) > discussed the idea of having an extra apps distribution for GNOME > 1.4. While GNOME 1.4 would be kept to the core desktop and development > platform, this extra distribution would contain other useful apps, > things like Gabber or Gnumeric or Dia or GnuCash, and also deprecated > but still supported things like gmc or gnome-pim. These applications > will be certified as reasonably useful, and tested with 1.4. > > I would like 1 or 2 (or maybe 3 if you can work very well together) > volunteers to coordinate this extra apps release. Jacob and I, as > GNOME 1.4 release coordinators, will provide whoever volunteers with > advice and help coordinate this with the 1.4 schedule. > > The extra apps distribution could go out right with GNOME 1.4, or a > little bit after. It's important not to jump just any app in here by > the way; including the whole GNOME Software Map probably wouldn't work > out so well. The focus should be on apps that are stable and tested > with 1.4. Also, apps that integrate well with GNOME and are not just > straight Gtk+ should be favored. <snip> > > If you'd like to volunteer, please send me mail, I'll present the > candidates to the steering committee, and we will pick someone > (assuming there is more than one candidate :-). If you want to do it > as team of more than one, please send mail as a team. On behalf of the abiword team I volenteer to coordinate an Abiword release to be included with the extras release of gnome 1.4. Cheers Martin Sevior
