On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 20:14 -0500, Gerald Henriksen wrote:
On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 15:27:41 -0500, you wrote:
>On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 12:08 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
>> The GNOME we're trying to build has its own vision, and it's trying to
>> become its own well-defined product: The number-one free software
>> operating system.
>
>Not it's not. This means that they have a single dedicated desktop
>experience and that the community is allowed to use those components but
>there isn't a formal mechanism to standardize to a common core. It also
>excludes any potential requirements for a separate desktop environment
>for commercial vendors. If you actually read my Proposal you would
>realize that.
>
>I have worked out a compromise that works for GNOME 3, GNOME 2 and the
>Gnome community projects. It's called the GNOME Meta-Desktop.
All your proposal does is formalize the current GTK desktop world mess
into an official product that solves none of the problems.
You can't say your proposal provides a "single dedicated desktop
experience" while at the same time claiming to offer a GNOME 3 and
GNOME 2 experience - those 2 products have fundamentally different
design goals and experiences.
Third party developers want 1 target to aim for, and whether is is the
current mess of GNOME / Cinnamon / MATE (plus KDE) or your GNOME
Meta-Desktop the problem is not solved because there is no 1 target.
Keep in mind it's a DRAFT and not a final copy yet, it has to be
refined.
The important part is here:
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GNOME 2 would be managed by a select committee made up of
representatives sent directly from GNOME Foundation corporate sponsors.
This committee would also donate a certain percentage of their engineers
time to work on the GNOME projects with a focus on GNOME 2. This
committee would would draw up GNOME 2 product requirements, act in an
advisory capacity and have final say on official releases. GNOME 2 would
be tied to RHEL and it's release cycles but there would be more frequent
release channels available.
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https://wiki.gnome.org/AlexGS/GnomeMetaDesktop
The corporate committee would basically control the product. It would
be a diverse group of people. This way GNOME 2 could be managed
correctly and shaped into a proper business desktop and workstation
desktop environment.
Just to let you know if you have comments or want to assist with getting
this realized there's a COMMENT's section on the bottom of the proposal
on the GNOME Wiki page. Please use that or Google+ for general
matters.
I don't want to distract the Fedora Developer list any further, I've
caused enough of a ruckus.