[OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome to become a Linux only project

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 05/19/11 04:23 AM, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote:
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> Hello,
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> I have read the following
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> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTQ1Nw
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> Are they serious? I think we should seriously consider abandoning GNOME
> and replace it with KDE.

Will it seriously happen?   To soon to say.

Are there some GNOME developers seriously annoyed that they have to do
a lot more work to support other platforms than the amount of contributions
they get from developers of those platforms?   Absolutely.

If you care, you can contribute to lessening that pain by reducing platform
differences or contributing more to the overall GNOME development.

For instance, a very similar set of developers work on X.Org, and most of them
are Linux based, but they're not as upset about carrying support for Mac OS X,
Solaris or BSD, because the developers from those platforms help with the
overall project development load.   I did release management for X11R6.9, 7.5,
and 7.6; the MacOS X port maintainer from Apple is also the maintainer of the
Xorg 1.9.x & 1.10.x stable release series, the OpenBSD port maintainer is also
the security alert coordinator, etc.    HP-UX, SCO, AIX?   Long since purged.

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	-Alan Coopersmith-        alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
	 Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System