including gnome 2.4 in next red hat release

Gerald Henriksen ghenriks at rogers.com
Mon Aug 4 18:06:05 UTC 2003


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distribution that actually supports it is *always* out of date.





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