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 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
