> >> And now, the "general problem": I just don't see ex-Ximian people > >> involved into openSUSE at all. > > I see quite a few of them involved in some way or other, but when the > By "involved", I meant being on this mailing-list and/or on > opensuse-packaging. Besides a few of them being aggregated on > http://planetsuse.org, I don't think I've seen them directly involved in > any way.
They are *developers*, that should be developing and not bothered with all this noise. Developing really good stuff, which they do, is hard work and requires concentrated effort. > The issue is that GNOME 2.14 is not available in GNOME supplementary, > neither for 10.1 nor for 10.0. KDE 3.5.2 has been released roughly at > around the same time (more or less) and has been available in KDE > supplementary for quite some time (at least for 10.0 - builds for 10.1 > have been provided a week after 10.1 release). > Actually, KDE 3.5.2 was released March 28, and GNOME 2.14 was on March 15. Well, I'm a long time GNOME user. I use GNOME 10+ hours a day... and I just don't care that much about 2.12 vs. 2.14 vs. whatever. It will show up on my desktop/laptop at some point, but the current GNOME easily has the features required to get my work done. Maybe GNOME people are just lest prone to version mania. > What I can't understand is that with acquiring Ximian, you'd expect > Novell to be _the_ GNOME driver (as Ximian was). Sure, I guess a good > part of the Ximian developers who were working on GNOME are now busy > with other tasks (e.g. NetworkManager and Zen), but still. > It just doesn't make any sense to me that the company that has some if > not most of the lead developers of GNOME (as well as the GNOME project > lead) on its payroll does not have up-to-date GNOME packages for its > very own Linux distribution. Maybe the focus of the *distribution* is just to provide a solid and will integrated desktop environment, which the provided version of GNOME provides? > So either my assumptions are wrong and the former Ximian staff is not > involved in GNOME development any more, or providing an up-to-date GNOME > is extremely low priority at Novell and those folks are using Ubuntu or > Fedora Core on their workstations. Who cares what they use. > > Now that 10.1 is out, I suspect we can expect to see 2.14 or 2.15 appear > > in supplementary (can I just say, I'd prefer to see 2.14, at least at > > first - good to have something mostly stable in there, but 2.15 in > > Factory would be good, we can aim to have 2.16 in 10.2). > GNOME 2.14 has been released March 15, 2 months ago. Just two months ago? In a corporate environment it is freakin' *RARE* to see ANY package updated/installed withing 2 months of its release. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
