[Fwd: Re: Gtk+ 2.8 for GNOME 2.12]

[Jeff Spaleta]

On 7/20/05, Nicu Buculei <nicu_fedora at nicubunu.ro> wrote:
> Anyway, with a GNOME release in September and a Fedora containing it 6
> months after it, expect Fedora users to use alternate repositories to
> get a current GNOME (like nrpms.net), thus providing no feed-back to
> Fedora or to experiment with Ubuntu (again, no feed-back for Fedora).

I plan to give feedback through fc5 regardless of how this gnome
release scheduling issue shakes out.  So its probably technically
incorrect to say "no feedback."  Potentially "less feedback". People
use nrpms and ubuntu now for a variety of reasons, I'm not sure much
is going to change in that regard. I somewhat doubt the implication
that all or most or even a sizable group of users are going to jump
off of Core provided binaries because of this.

The lack of a gnome 2.12 any any fedora release is a noteworthy
concern, but until we hear from the maintainers as to their plans on
how to handle it.  I'm not sure its worth the effort to engage in
protracted back and forth over options from the sidelines and
certaintly not worth it with regard to a marketting or informational
focus.  So i encourage you to talk to the people responsible for
getting the fedora desktop stuff out and ask them how they plan to
handle gnome 2.12, I'm not sure any of them actually sit on this list.

-jef