[Mageia-dev] Gnome mess in Mageia SVN...

Sun Feb 24 21:59:10 CET 2013

+>
+> Not to mention there is serious doubts the the 3.8.0 release
+> will be good enough to work properly for all endusers when the
+> fallback is dropped, so it would need atleast a update to 3.8.x
+> as a followup later to provide something that actually works,
+> wich comes back to lack of maintainers...
+>
+
+I don't think Mageia providing GNOME 3.8 with the new classic mode made 
+using extensions, rather than the old fall back mode, would cause loads 
+of problems: http://worldofgnome.org/gnome-classic-not-classic-all/
+
+Mageia doesn't have Unity for example which actually uses some things 
+from the fall back mode, and as a result I think Ubuntu 13.04 staying 
+with GNOME 3.6.2 rather than going 3.8 is a rather valid reason for them 
+to do so.
+
+Originally Mageia 3 was going to come out on March 20th, which caused an 
+issue all along when it came to what GNOME version it would be released 
+with, since GNOME 3.8 is scheduled for release on March 27th.  However 
+then the release scheduled changed to April 2nd/3rd and then once again 
+to the 3rd of May.  3rd of May would actually provide enough time to get 
+a GNOME 3.8 point release or two in there as well, as long as Olav or 
+whoever is willing or able to package it does the work, and QA is 
+willing to test it properly for example.  Well I joined QA myself to 
+test pre release ISO's with GNOME and such at times :).  I know that in 
+general people from the QA team, are quite willing to test out GNOME 
+versions when it's time to test one, even if they don't personally use 
+GNOME as their DE of choice.
+
+Also KDE will be released with the latest stable final KDE version at 
+the time of Mageia 3's release, so why not GNOME aswell?  Also I thought 
+that was the idea that both KDE and GNOME would get an exception for 
+version freeze, so that Mageia could be released with the latest stable 
+version at the time, of when the next Mageia version is going to be 
+released?
+
+Really the GNOME 3.8 proposal should be discussed again, and both myself 
+and someone else from the QA team, think that the next council meeting 
+which is scheduled for tommorow would be a good idea. Obviosuly Olav 
+should be in such a disucssion if one is going to happen in the council 
+or packagers meeting for example.
+
+Personally I think in general it's a bad thing to release a distro with 
+a  over six months old version of a major upstream project such as GNOME 
+or KDE,  unless there is a proper valid reason to do so, such as the 
+Ubuntu and Unity example.
+