Xfce 4.4BETA1

[SJM Arts]

----- Original Message -----
From: sofar <sofar at foo-projects.org>
Date: Sunday, March 26, 2006 8:14 pm
Subject: Re: Xfce 4.4BETA1
> 
> 
> On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 17:11:09 +0100, Robin Haswell <rob at digital-
> crocus.com> wrote:
> > Sorry, instead of 4.4 I meant "latest SVN" - 4.3, or whatever 
> that is.
> > Anyway, I don't know what you want from XFCE but if you want it 
> to be
> > more popular you should consider Ubuntu as "maybe a bit more 
> relevant> than irrelevant", as XFCE is perfectly poised in 
> Ubuntuland with
> > Xubuntu. Semi-geeks who want Linux that "just works" without being
> > patronised by GNOME or brain-fried by KDE are the perfect 
> audience for
> > an XFCE desktop - and Ubuntu has shedloads of them.
> 
> You don't get it - Xfce's release schedule is not influenced by 
> other people's release schedules - no discussion. If Xfce 4.4 is 
> not ready then it will not be released. You may think that XXX is 
> sooooo important but think about this:
> 
> - when we released 4.0, 4.2 etc was it really just as important? 
> How about 2 years from now?
> - are you sure that favoring one distro will really help?
> - do you think that if we schedule releases when we are not ready 
> will improve quality?
> - if we release at the wrong time do we not disappoint users in the 
> quality?- what about non-linux'es ? We aim to be portable - should 
> we then also just drop solaris/bsd/irix ?
> 
> Ubuntu is nice, and certainly (as any other distro that advertises 
> Xfce, such as almost _all_ of them) brings a lot of eyes towards 
> Xfce. But in the decision process does not play a role - and that 
> is not to make Ubuntu irrelevant at all, but just *totally* 
> irrelevant to the release schedule - which was the context that you 
> were discussing it in.
> 
> Here is what really matters to the release schedule:
> 
> - that the developers have extra time to make releases
> - that everyone is ready
> - that noone has showstoppers
> - that new features are solidly tested
> - that someone manages it all and does the hard work
> etc.
> 
> As you can see, Ubuntu is not a part of this list. Neither is Lunar-
> Linux or Gentoo, nor debian, nor RedHat or Fedora etc. 
> 
> Auke
> 
> 
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thanks auke