On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Andrew Sobala wrote: > Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:09:32 +0100 > From: Andrew Sobala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: desktop-devel-list <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Gnome 2 infinity and beyond [was Re: Tango and 2.16] > > Alan Horkan wrote:
> > I put serious thought into the fact that Gnome 3.0 would be useful way to > > highlight all the progress that has been made. A major version number > > change is also of some marketing value. > Look at the desktop. It's got incredibly amazing since the times of > GNOME 2.2, but it's still very much a GNOME two series desktop. > > There are ideas for what people want from a GNOME 3.0 desktop, and these > Topaz-related include: [... big big ideas ...] > I've picked out the biggest ideas; there's much more than this on the > Wiki. If two or three of those big ideas were to coincide (especially I really do think it would merit a major release. > And it can *all* be done *now.* That's the point. Yes. I'm glad that much is clear. > It's big. It's hard. It's a lot of work. But there's nothing to stop > any of these ideas being implemented. And when we have the code to make > this all work, we can build something new: the next generation desktop, > and call it GNOME 3.0. But we can't keep doing "little" point-release > things and pass a future point-release off as GNOME 3.0 - it doesn't > work like that. > We'd be crucified. Expectations. If we did it with a few weeks notice we'd be rightly crucified for letting it build up for so long to some utopian vision no one would be satisfied with. If it was planned 6-12 months in advance that a 2.x release would be called 3.0 in recognition of X and Y big features then we would be able to manage expectations. More likely Gnome 2.x will continue on for many more years. -- Alan H _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
