Havoc Pennington on GNOME 3's Future

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday April 21, 2005 @10:04AM from the this-way-or-that-way dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Havoc Pennington, lead developer of GNOME, wants to fork GNOME 3. 'So the forces of existing userbase, the easiest-to-reach future userbase, cross-platform applications, and funded development efforts are strongly pulling GNOME 2 toward conservatism. I think GNOME 3 should be a fork for that reason.'" This has been a common practice for not only many open source projects, but proprietary systems such as Solaris for major revisions, so it's not as tumultous a change as the word "fork" may imply.

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Follow the Linux Kernel example by ajiva · 2005-04-21 10:08 · Score: 1, Redundant

Maybe the GNOME guys should follow how the Linux kernel works. Keep even numbered GNOME releases as the stable, it works for everyday use. Update the even number versions with bug fixes, and maybe small targeted improvements. Then on the other hand have the odd number GNOME releases be the wild and crazy, lets see what kind of interesting desktop we can create. Once something stable, usable and decent looking is created, make the odd numbered release the new even releaes.