Re: complaints against the GNOME team
On Sat, May 17, 2008, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> In too many places has it been declared buggy and dead upstream, that
> rarian should replace it.
Do you have more specifics? We don't really have a formal process to
propose new features to Debian or Debian GNOME; we only have release
goals and DEPs AFAIK, but this is moving. What we currently do is that
we rely on individuals to discuss high level features / goals, then
implement them by requesting / doing the technical changes.
If I were asked now to switch to rarian, I would point at the risk of
changing to a new codebase and would ask for some proven benefits.
Perhaps you can start building a wiki page documenting:
- known new features (could be performance, code quality etc.)
- known regressions
- known bugs in scrollkeeper which are fixed in rarian
This would help convincing people like me; if nothing comes in the way,
you could immediately start proposing patches to prefer rarian over
scrollkeeper.
Bye
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Loïc Minier
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