Developers responsibillity to Fedora Users

[Darryl L. Pierce]

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 05:05:35PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 09/28/2011 02:43 PM, Darryl L. Pierce wrote:
> >On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:30:34PM +0100, Terry Barnaby wrote:
> >>I don't use Gnome myself, mainly KDE.
> >>But its seems like a lot of people would like Gnome2 back. Why doesn't someone,
> >>who has a problem with it just rebuild and release Gnome2 for F15 (with a
> >>different package name) ?
> 
> IMO, that's a misperception: Most people who complain about Gnome3
> don't like its look'n'feel and/or are missing certain
> functionalities, but like the Gnome2 look'n'feel and/or certain
> functionalities.
> That's entirely different from forking Gnome2.
> 
> It's xfce's similarity to Gnome2, which makes xfce applicable as a
> resort to them.
> 
> >That's the open source way. Don't like Gnome 3? Then fork and maintain
> >Gnome 2 and build a new project around it. If there are enough people
> >who support such a move then a community will form around it.
> 
> Alternatively, the Gnome folks finally start listening to their
> users and bring back the old look'n'feel and at least some its
> functionalties.

And since the possibility of that happening is next to zero, we're back
to "fork and support" for Gnome 2.

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Darryl L. Pierce, Sr. Software Engineer @ Red Hat, Inc.
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