On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 06:33:51PM -0400, Alan Cox wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 06:13:56PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > Also, we should stop doing any kernel development until ipw4965 actually > > works. I'm pretty sure we don't need another slab allocator. > > And how many years as gnome out of disk been broken, or evolution crap ? To be fair to evolution, it's getting on for being in the region of half as big as the kernel. Making it non-crap isn't a five minute job, and asking people to spend three years failing to get very far through it isn't likely to win many friends. We have insane quantities of crap code in the distribution and stopping feature development in order to fix all of it wouldn't actually result in customers beating our door dwn. > No we don't need another slab allocator, but last time I checked nobody in > Red Hat was writing one either. They are all far too busy working on stuff > that needs doing. We needed Ubuntu on Sparc64? A functional desktop is something that needs doing. We can quibble over what's actually required for a functional desktop (and I'll agree that evolution isn't a shining example of functionality), but I'm fairly convinced that getting system alerts to a relevant user in a timely manner is one component of it. Doing so via mail worked fine when most Unix systems were maintained by people who understood cron, but that's not current reality. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
