On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Jason D. Clinton <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Lucas Rocha <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Extra Information
>> -----------------
>>
>> We're planning to do the actual reorganization of the modulesets as soon
>> as
>> possible during this development cycle. The idea is that GNOME 3 is
>> released
>> using the new modulesets.
>>
>> The long term plan for the GNOME applications that were removed from the
>> Desktop, Admin and Dev Tools modulesets is to simply highlight the
>> high-quality
>> applications using the GNOME platform through our communication channels
>> (release notes, website, etc). There will be no "official" apps anymore
>> and no
>> 'Applications' moduleset in the GNOME releases. The goal here is be more
>> open
>> with the app developer community around GNOME and to highlight all the
>> nice
>> things that can be created using our platform.
>>
>
> I want to say that I am really happy about this proposal! As co-maintainer
> of GNOME Games, I have had to constantly turn down people whom want their
> game included in the distribution only to obtain the recognition that would
> come with that inclusion. Some of the games that have been proposed have
> been of a really high quality but, for example, didn't fit the language
> knowledge of the current maintainers.
>
> [email protected]
> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
>

I will chime in with a "me too" as well.  Using our marketing muscle to
promote good apps and to promote the communities around those apps is the
way to go.  I hope to see even some cool "commercials" on youtube GNOME
channel (or whatever) with tricks and what not.

sri
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