Well, I've tried GNOME 3 now...

[Ed Greshko]

On 04/28/2011 11:19 PM, Olav Vitters wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 07:22:17PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
>> On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 19:01 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>> In other words Gnome and Fedora (Both projects dominated by a single 
>>> enterprise) haved decided to switch their target audience.
>> I wouldn't say Fedora is dominated by a single enterprise exactly, but I
>> can see the characterization. It really doesn't apply to GNOME, though.
>> GNOME is way broader than any single company, Novell probably
>> contributes as much as we do and many other groups are involved. As a
>> trivial example, when looking at the recent change in the GNOME release
>> teams, I see 8 names (former, current and future team members) and I
>> only recognize one as being an RHer. (I don't preclude the possibility
>> I'm wrong, it's a big company. Sorry if I missed someone. :>)
> We currently have 2 people on the release team who are affiliated with
> Red Hat. Recently 2 persons currently affiliated with Novell left the
> release team.
>
> Note that affiliation doesn't say much. The 2 persons affiliated with
> Novell weren't affiliated with Novell when they were invited to
> (&joined) the release team.
>
> People are not invited based on their affiliation. Solely on the work
> they did (usually over multiple years) and how they'd fit into the team.
> E.g. we needed an accessibility person to provide his input, so we
> invited API to join.
>
> I always find it funny when people suggest GNOME is one corporation. So
> far from reality that I cannot respond in any other way than to laugh :) [1]
>
> Just to avoid these kind of arguments, we've added a maximum to the
> number of affiliates from the same organization:
>   https://live.gnome.org/ReleasePlanning/Membership
>
> Also note that according to the GNOME census report, 50% are paid to
> work on GNOME, 50% is not.
>

Where is the "like" button?  :-)

+1