On Wed, 2013-08-07 at 14:45 +0200, Michael Weber wrote: > Greetings, > > Gnome Herd decided to target stablilization of 3.8 [1] which requires > systemd. > > What are the reasons to stable 3.8 and not 3.6, a version w/o this > restriction, enabling all non systemd users to profit from this > eye-candy as well. > > I raise the freedom of choice card here. And deliberately choosing an > uncooperative version doesn't shine a good light. > > Facts, pls! > > Michael > > [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478252
To stabilize gnome-3.6, we would need 1. one or (preferably) two *active* gentoo developers; 2. who are familiar with gnome's internals and are able to backport bugfixes from 3.8/3.10 without support from upstream developers; and 3. who volunteer to run openrc+gnome-3.6 for a long time on their main machines so that they can give a stable 3.6 the support that the word 'stable' implies. We do not have such people on the gnome team.
