Greetings folks,
A few weeks back Matthias, Owen and several others [1] contributed to a
discussion geared towards better understanding the upstream GNOME3
release criteria, and how we can best adjust expectations for the
upcoming 3.0 and F15 releases. I just merged the results of our
discussion into the GNOME3 Fedora feature page. For a diff, see [2].
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Gnome3
The notable changes I'd like to call out are ...
= Scope =
The previous section listed many development and packaging milestones.
Using that information, it was hard to visualize the high-level goal for
the release. This section attempts to articulate what a successful
GNOME3 release looks like to reduce as many surprises as possible come
GA time.
= Comments & Discussion =
Given that GNOME 3 offers a *dramatically* different user experience
than GNOME 2.X, there are going to be plenty of users who are
surprised/disrupted by the changes. As a result, we wanted to start
compiling common questions/workarounds/workflows that have come up so
far. I anticipate referencing these a lot on irc/lists. Perhaps, over
time these migrate into release notes.
Please take a moment to review the changes (again, see diff [2]). I
suspect there is a lot more room to set expectations for the upcoming
releases. Feel free to contribute additional comments/ideas along those
lines.
Thanks,
James
[1] Several more folks including adamw, rbergeron, jsmith, kevin and
notting
[2]
https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Features%
2FGnome3&diff=220135&oldid=220015