Re: [Trisquel-users] Should future releases have Modern (Gnome 3/Unity) and Classic desktops?

[sirgrant]

Yes, it would definitely be ideal for releases to be a month or two after  
Ubuntu releases.  However I don't believe this is realistic at the current  
time.  If you look at the size of the Mint team  
(http://www.linuxmint.com/teams.php) it is significantly larger than ours  
(https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/trisquel-team).  They have different  
maintainers for KDE; Fluxbox; LXDE; ect.  We have basically one guy doing  
most of the development for multiple versions  
(international;mini;regular;ect.)  This isn't to mention the fact that they  
have sponsors as well (http://www.linuxmint.com/sponsors.php).  They recieve  
about $3000 a month in cash or equivalent services.  If we had that our  
development rate would increase I'm sure.

I also don't know why you say the pace needs to be picked up.  The project  
isn't on a deadline.  As far as I'm concerned it is done when it done.   
However if you want to help the development go faster feel free to join the  
dev mailing list and IRC channel.  Even if you don't have technical skills  
there are other ways to help out.  The more others do the less quidam has to  
worry about and the more he can focus on development.