On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 19:27 +0000, Jamie McCracken wrote: > > tracker is now in fedora and I have a Debian Developer putting it > into > debain and ubuntu so if distro inclusion is a good guide (which you > asserted to last time) then why should it not be suitable for > inclusion > in gnome at this point?
It's different. Almost any piece of Free Software can make it into Fedora, Ubuntu, and Debian. That's because all those projects have formal, documented means to include software without much technical review or comparisons. They all welcome multiple projects providing the same functionality, etc etc. In other words, being in Fedora Extras or Ubuntu Universe means not much. What *is* a very high point in a project's profile is whether any distros ship it as part of their default installation and used as a "distro feature". NetworkManager or gnome-power-manager are for example shipped by Fedora as such. They are part of the default install (ok, NetworkManager is not enabled by default, but g-p-m is), and advertised as part of the distro in Release Notes, etc. Tracker isn't. In contrast, Beagle kinda is, in Fedora Core 6. -- behdad http://behdad.org/ "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
