On 04 Aug 2003 16:29:23 +0200, you wrote:
We are quite aware of Gnome 2.3, given that several of us are
maintainers of core Gnome modules. This also means we are aware of the
schedules involved. However, Red Hat Linux is on a time-based schedule,
and it was clear long ago that Gnome 2.4 would be released too late to
be in the current release.
Well, Gnome 2.4 is basically in feature freeze with beta testing
occurring. I guess the question is whether it would cause to many
problems having the Red Hat and Gnome beta testing occur at the same
time by including the Gnome beta in the Red Hat beta.
Luckily, both Gnome and Red Hat are using a time-based schedule with
a
pretty fast turnaround (both about 6 months). This means that even if
the schedule of the two projects will not always be synchronized it will
never take that long before the latest Gnome release will get into a Red
Hat release.
Or more accurately, that there will always be a needless 6 month delay
between Gnome being released and then being included in Red Hat.
Which, given the fact that most other commercial distributions tend to
favour KDE, seems to be a serious negative for Gnome that the only
distribution that actually supports it is *always* out of date.