Re: Bug#154950: Thoughts on GNOME 2 transition
On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 15:46, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Raphael Hertzog writes ("Bug#154950: Thoughts on GNOME 2 transition"):
> > I urge the technical committee to take a sensible decision (ie one of
> > the three solutions proposed in my initial mail) quickly. [...]
>
> You're right that we are taking too long. I'd like to propose that we
> hold an IRC meeting between interested parties - not to decide, but to
> discuss questions. We'd publish the log to this bug report, and I'd
> write up a summary.
>
> I'm available:
> Thursday 29th August unavailable
> Friday 30th August 1900 - 0200
> Saturday 31st August 0900 - 1300
> Sunday 1st September 0900 - 0200
> Monday 2nd September unavailable
> Tuesday 3rd September 1900 - 0200
> Wednesday 4th September 1900 - 0200
> Thursday 5th September unavailable
Are these times UTC, or what?
> Please pass this message on to appropriate people. If there's a
> separate Gnome list it would be good to announce it there.
There is; debian-gtk-gnome@l.d.o. I've CC'd that list so people there
but not on -ctte know about this meeting.
> It does seem that you may be right on this point - that no-one wants
> to make them coexist.
Upstream certainly doesn't. And if I were deploying Debian developer
resources, I wouldn't use them to preserve an obsolete, unsupported
version of GNOME. Rather, I would use them to ensure that the upgrade
from GNOME 1 to GNOME 2 goes smoothly.
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