On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 10:51, Shaun ONeil wrote: > Good day all, > > First off, a caveat: I'm just a User, not a developer. Take me as you > will. > > Now, a recent mail[1] on debian-devel reminded me of the Debian > Desktop[2] sub-project, which I see could be a great solution to a lot > of conflict and duplicated effort. > > What I see happening around me at recently (hopefully somewhere close to > chronological order): > > * Backports appear for Gnome 2.x on Woody > * Hopeful release date announced for Sarge to become Stable > * KDE fans immediately realise that this date stands days before KDE 4.2 > is due, and propose many unworkable ideas to squeeze it into Sarge at > the last moment, during the heaviest of freezes. > * Spanish Gnome Fanatics[3] make great steps towards a Ximian Desktop > port to Woody > * Gnome 2.4 arrives: Anxious gnome-ers want to see the latest and > greatest of their favourite desktop, at a time when in all honesty we > should be aiming for ripples, not tsunami. > * I get a faint sniff that our Spanish friends _may_ be talking to > Ximian about producing community-produced backport of the next Ximian > Desktop. > > I can't seriously be the only one that still thinks that the legions of > developers that volunteered to help put KDE 4.2 into Sarge, or Gnome 2.4 > into Experimental, or those currently producing third-party backports .. > between them couldn't produce one butt-kicking Debian Desktop > subproject? > > I see a Will, I see a Way - and I see the combination as a win-win > situation. comments? > > Regards, > Shaun. > > [1] > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200309/msg00624.html > [2] http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-desktop/ > [3] I personally see Gnome Fanatic as a compliment. I simply don't > recall the correct name of the group in question right now.
addendum: Yes, I realise being a central repository for backports wasn't debian-desktop's original purpose, but it seems to be sitting there waiting for a good use, and this could be it. currently users have a choice of having an old desktop on a solid foundation, or a new desktop on a shakey foundation. I do see that separating the desktop from the foundation could be very beneficial to desktop users, and would ease the stampede when they do release a new foundation. Starting to wonder if he made sense in the first place, Shaun.
