On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Johannes Schmid <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi! > > > AFAIK there are quite a few standing issues with GNOME arabic > > support. > > > > http://wiki.arabeyes.org/Gnome > > http://wiki.arabeyes.org/%D8%AC%D9%86%D9%88%D9%85 > > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=420964 > > > > These are slightly out of date though. > > Hmm, the bugs seem mostly fixed and I don't see what this has to do with > upstream vs. downstream. > > > * Why do you think our infrastructure is limiting? > > > > > > The development happening on Launchpad (not bazaar) really beats what > > GNOME provides in several aspects, starting bug management, > > blueprinting and linking with branches. There are a lot of nice > > projects there that are not part of GNOME because of the GNOME > > Infrastructure: GNOME Do, Docky, Getting Things GNOME... These > > projects are in their own rights very successful and used by the > > community. And by allowing them to deploy per default with GNOME would > > just benefit the GNOME community... > > The Project leads don't care since they are being deployed downstream > > now which is more or less skipping the middle man which is GNOME, who > > seem to be conservative in some of these aspects. > > I am not saying we should switch to Lauchpad or so. But we need to > > study and make an effort into compromising. Having major projects work > > downstream will kill GNOME, and pointing fingers will not help. > > Well, I see your point while I disagree. > > > > * For the company statements IMHO despite I don't know > > anything about > > the Unity plans I think those arent' true. Could you explain? > > > > > > > > I am not saying its true but sooner or later RH will want to deploy > > GNOME Shell on the netbooks just like Unity will at some point put an > > eye on the desktop... Its naive to asssume both will not try to assume > > positions in the netbook and desktop market... > > It's getting off-topic but would it be wrong to say that one company is > working upstream while the other company is working downstream? Wouldn't > the point be to have everyone work upstream? Seems like the new board > should participate in this discussion regardless who is in the new > board. > I would love to have the whole community discuss this issue... please wait for my next mail > > Regards, > Johannes > > > Cheers Seif
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