On 26 November 2012 14:47, Olav Vitters <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 10:07:31PM +0800, Joseph Wang wrote: >> Anyway, gnome is in a death spiral > > If you don't like flames, don't start one. > > -- > Regards, > Olav (GNOME release team member, Mageia packager)
While this situation is unfortunate, and could have been prevented by finding out what needed done at the start I still cant help but feel that at the very lest the work that has been done should be kept as it is still unclear what will happen in the future. That said, the reasons for Mageia not including Cinnamon to me are valid, and while packaging Cinnamon may have been your direct aim, even an open source community driven project requires teams to have coordination and cant be a free for all, therefore, I feel that while your work on Cinnamon and the enthusiasm is really welcome, adding some direction to it, for instance trying to reduce the list on un-maintained packages that we already have would be far more beneficial to the project, albeit maybe more work like for you. But this is the compromise that contributing to a project requires. Schultz
