Hi, > > > > Is GNOME 2.10 maintained? > > If you want to do an analogy, you should ask : is GNOME 2.12 > maintained ? ;)
No - since GNOME 2.14 is not out yet. The question is - is GNOME maintaining more than one stable branch at any point ? > After discussing on irc, it seems not everybody has the same definition > of "unmaintained". > > For me, unmaintained means "dead", ie no more commit on CVS, nothing. I think in this particular case, for me it means something roughly like: - important security fixes will get applied and released - crasher bugs that have patches and are not invasive will get applied - I make an effort to not destabilize the latest released version on this branch by applying random patches from wherever without proper testing - I'm not actively looking for bugs to fix in it - big feature additions, addition of plug-ins, ... do not get applied I think that's a fair compromise between work involved, viability of that branch, and expectations from users of that version. I am assuming that Ronald, by maintaining, in this case, means he might try and fix bugs on his own. In practice, given that he's busy, I would expect him to either be really annoyed by it personally or have a patch in bugzilla to work from. My only worry when it comes to 0.8 is possible destabilization of a highly evolved code base that is about as good as it can possibly get at this point. Thomas Dave/Dina : future TV today ! - http://www.davedina.org/ <-*- thomas (dot) apestaart (dot) org -*-> Kiss me please kiss me Kiss me out of desire baby not consolation Oh you know it makes me so angry cause I know that in time I'll only make you cry <-*- thomas (at) apestaart (dot) org -*-> URGent, best radio on the net - 24/7 ! - http://urgent.fm/ _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list