On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Sven Herzberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 25.03.2008, 23:16 -0700 schrieb Eitan Isaacson: > > Feature completeness, license issues and your favorite IRC client are > > trivial > > issues that could be worked out. > If they were trivial, why haven't they been sorted out after the denial > in the last cycle, it would have helped a lot to be able to tell people > "your critics from the last proposal cycle are not valid anymore", but > as you can see, they are still valid; why IMHO proved, that these issues > are _not_ trivial ones.
As I see it, the license is currently not a problem and was not raised as such in the 2.22 cycle (it was only noted that this could be an issue if GNOME decided to move to v3 licenses but certainly was not a showstopper then and is not one today). As for the IRC/foo/bar interface - this really belongs in a separate project. Empathy is an IM framework, not a one-size-fits-all solution to world hunger at al. The whole point of making Empathy part of GNOME is to allow the community to build great apps that use the Empathy/Telepathy stack. These could include your favorite IRC client with buddy support. Feature completeness is not an issue as the project is young and does NOT replace any other part of GNOME so we are talking about adding features to the desktop, not about removing them. Totem was not feature complete for a while and that was considered a regression still no one proposed dropping it from the desktop. Same for GStreamer after the move from 0.8 to 0.10 - both resulted in GNOME being a better place for both users and developers. Please don't cross projects solely on the "it can't do foo while mlibpurple does" basis. -- Patryk Zawadzki PLD Linux Distribution _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list