On 7/22/05, Glynn Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Heya, > > > Please bear with me along the following rant. > > Okay, so this rant covers a lot of ground, but I have specific comments > from a Sun perspective - > > o As a Sun developer, I'd much rather the community focus on > churning out the next release of GNOME. Which is pretty much what > the average hacker wants to do, right - be innovative, develop > new features and generally get the desktop moving forward. Bug fixing > gets boring, and bug fixing on stable branches even more so ;) > > o I think it should be up to the various distributions to put their > bug fixing patches upstream, and onto the branches ASAP - so that > other distributions can also use them. Let's face it - there's > no value add in bug fixes, and if they don't get pushed upstream, > it makes GNOME look bad rather than other distributions. I'd > very much welcome a 'free for all' on the stable branches, past > the 2 or 3 official releases we do.
Once upon a time Nat and I talked about having a centrally located/funded coordinator for the distros, known to be reasonably neutral, whose job it was to track bugs[1] in older versions, test patches against multiple versions, etc.- basically do the coordination/testing/release work that would solve some of the problems Federico very correctly highlighted. I still think it would likely be a good investment for the distros (who will all soon maintain multiple old versions that none of the developers want to touch) to pool some money and hire such a person. [1] At the time (right after the glow of 2.0) I was interested; most definitely am not these days, though I'd certainly lend my advice on the bug-tracking side. > o I'm trying to push a change in development process within Sun, so > that we can concentrate our core development on HEAD as much as > possible. We've been kicking this around internally for the past > couple of years, and now with our focus on OpenSolaris, I think it > should be more feasible to do than previously. As an added bonus, > we hope to be able to throw QA resources into that as well. All > this is going to take time though, and won't happen overnight. I have seen that mentioned in some blogs, and I agree it would be great to see- I hope it works out. Luis _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
