On 12/10/2011 03:30 PM, Zoltan Boszormenyi wrote: u > Not so fast, there was a point in time when > the whole Linux development community > was Linus Torvalds. Live and let live. You would have a better point there if MATE was a new desktop environment trying to grow a community. GNOME 2.x is a complex codebase with a lot of legacy. Maintaining it as a single person is impossible. What has been accomplished is that someone renamed the 2.x gnome* to mate* but the effort to move it forward is a lot more involved than that. There is atleast security fixes to take care of and compatibility issues to consider. A badly maintained desktop environment would result in false hope and reflect poorly on the distribution as well. A Fedora maintainer could still push these components through and take care of them but they will be partially performing the role of upstream. If someone is motivated enough to do it, then by all means, live and let live. Rahul -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
