On Mon, 2012-10-22 at 16:55 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: > Hi, > > The discussion about features is supposed to heat up next week, but I'll > actually be offline. So I'd like to start discussion on the fallback > mode today. > > First of all, go read the wiki page: > https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointSeven/Features/DropOrFixFallbackMode > > It more or less documents the current situation with the fallback mode. > And I'm of the opinion that we can't accept this situation for 3.8 > anymore. > > So, the two alternatives I can think of are: > > a) get more people to work on the fallback mode so that it has a high > enough quality and follows the current vision of the project
This option means that there would be a number of bugs that couldn't be fixed either at all, or couldn't be fixed without doing the splits, and making some code much more complicated than it was. > b) do not have a fallback mode anymore (or at least, not the current > one...) > > (if anyone can think of another option, please raise your voice) > > Please note that option b doesn't necessarily mean that all of the > features present in GNOME for the fallback mode get dropped too (this > would need to be discussed, and this is possibly up to each maintainer), > nor that fallback modules suddenly stop to be maintained (although this > might happen if nobody steps up). It's merely about stopping to endorse > as offical the current fallback mode. > > It'd be useful to know to what extent people would be affected if we > stop supporting the fallback mode. For instance, last June, Antoine > mentioned that llvmpipe support is not there yet on OpenBSD... > > Again, before replying, go read the wiki page: > https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointSeven/Features/DropOrFixFallbackMode _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
