Re: complaints against the GNOME team
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 11:17 PM, Loïc Minier <lool@dooz.org> wrote:
> 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
All I know is that it's much faster than scrollkeeper and is actively
maintained upstream, and it replaced scrollkeeper in GNOME. If that's
not enough then rather make it clear and I'll go away.
Thanks for the reply...
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