On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Elijah Newren wrote: > On 4/20/06, Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [1] Holy shit, just stop talking about version numbers at all. It > > > totally doesn't mean anything useful. > > > > I understand you and most developers do not think it is important but > > would it kill you to recognise that some people do* and it wouldn't hurt > > to try and pin down when it might happen to something less vague than > > "maybe later"? > > Personally, I'm all in favor of "Never -- unless something big comes > up making it the only reasonable path forward." Does that help? ;-)
It isn't what I most want to hear but thanks for coming straight out and saying it. > Now, if you're really interested in being able to improve marketing, I > have a suggestion for how to concretely improve things now: Why not > collect feature plans that maintainers already have and trumpet those? > Our roadmap (http://live.gnome.org/RoadMap) has 3 total things listed > for 2.16. Developers have already listed some plans on this list -- > maybe you could collect them. And ping more maintainers individually > for more? And write up some cool marketing materials based on it? > (Marketing ain't my gig so I won't be doing this -- I'd rather be > working on bugfixes, or maybe some features for bugzilla) > > No one is saying when if ever we might be ready. You are not even saying > > we wont be ready for at least another 2 or 3 releases and to stop asking > > until then. No one here seems to think it is strange to have the 2.x > > branch continue for updwards of 8 years but I cannot be the only one > > looking in thinking it is a bit weird**. > > I find it a bit odd to cite someone who admittedly doesn't use Gnome okay so not the best example but ... > probably failing (unless he changes, of course). Anyway, it would > probably make more sense to cite the many people who have added > comments to http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointZero. ;-) ... you provide a better one. > > Hell at the very worst please just say nobody has any idea when if ever > > 3.0 will happen, and what might be needed before anyone can provide a > > credible answer? > > I personally have no idea when if ever it will happen and don't have a > clue what would be needed before anyone can provide a credible answer. > You probably don't like that, but it's an honest answer from me. > Note though, that my entire email is just me speaking as an > individual. It is a start, I appreciate your answers. -- Alan H. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
