On 09/29/2011 03:06 AM, Craig White wrote:
On Wed, 2011-09-28 at 14:12 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 09/28/2011 01:37 PM, Craig White wrote:
>
>> Those who are unwilling or unprepared to use leading edge software,
>> still under development should probably be using something stable like
>> RHEL, CentOS, Scientific Linux, Ubuntu LTS, Debian or something other
>> than Fedora.
> Pardon, I had not intended to furtherly extend this thread, but now you
> provoking it.
>
> "Prepared for new SW" doesn't mean to swallow all mash being presented
> and to uncritically welcome everything new as "brilliant novelty", but
> also to make up personal opinions on such SW and to influence the system
> as part of the evolutionary process which has made Linux up to date.
>
> That said, I do not swallow the Gnome folks' claim to have implemented a
> "revolutionary new approach". IMO, their works, when thinking about them
> benevolently, at best is an early stage of a case study, which still has
> to prove its viability.
----
indeed it's early in the process of GNOME 3
Ever heard about projects gone crazy, being ruined by predominating
parties or leaders having lost contact to their users?
History is full of such stories.
ever heard of release early and often?
Yes. Applicable when it comes to gradual development. Only apply
applicable for redesigns of a system's key components, when the new
design can be installed in parallel.
ever read the Cathedral and the Bazaar?
This discussion and others before have made it obvious that Gnome is a
Cathedral governed by the absolute devine powers of its bishops and popes.
Maybe GNOME 3 will be a dismal failure or maybe it will be the the
cat's
meow but likely it will end up being something in between and certain
not to be loved by everyone.
It won't be a failure, because the driving forces
behind it will not
allow it to fail.
Ralf