Hi, What's the status of this?
--lucasr 2007/4/25, John (J5) Palmieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Recent blog posts I did: > > http://www.j5live.com/?p=355 > http://www.j5live.com/?p=356 > > gave some people the impression that I was against excitement in GNOME. > That sentiment could not be further from the truth. In fact I see and > participate in exciting project every day. However being a mature > project we need to weigh the new and exciting with the need to support > stability and time tested technology. > > The exciting stuff is happening all around us it is just that it is not > publicized and much of it takes a long term view that does not fit well > into our time based releases. It is correct that they stay this way so > that they can move along, experimenting without the heavy constraints > that becoming part of release puts on them. > > After talking with the release team to see if there are any objections, > as it is the release team that will be fielding the work that this > proposal will generate, we now open it up for comment to the rest of the > GNOME developer community. We wish to start a new "Sneak Peek" release > module. This module will contain API's and applications which are in > the process of being developed for a future release of GNOME but are not > yet API stable or in a form that is full acceptable for the GNOME > release process. Examples may be a fully integrated Network Manager, > Telepathy, Gimme, Big Board, Beagle, and Tracker. > > The current proposal for rules are that the project is in a usable > state, seeing active development, moving towards a time based release, > and having a dogfoodable upstream repository. On top of that project > members should be open to advice from the GNOME community and recognize > that being part of the module does not grantee inclusion in GNOME at > some later date. > > This gives project the room to experiment while letting other developers > keep an eye on the future directions GNOME may go in. It is my > prediction, seeing the way this sort of ecosystem bloomed with > freedesktop modules and GNOME, that there will be early adopters who > will port their apps to work with the newer technologies even before > API's are frozen and projects make it into the GNOME releases. This > will allow the projects themselves to gain real world feedback and allow > GNOME to move faster by having applications already utilizing the > technologies before they are accepted. > > This proposal is now open to comments and adjustments. > > -- > John (J5) Palmieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list > _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
