On 14 Apr 2009, at 15:02, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
Hi,
I understand the desire to want to know the release date, and I
totally agree
that the predictability of Fedora and co is very nice. Having said
that, this
is the first time we're doing this (well as a full self contained OS
stack rather
than an overlay like Moblin 1 was) and unfortunately that makes it a
bit unpredictable
for us; "when it's ready" would be the real right answer. For any
release but the first
one you can drop features if you're behind on the schedule etc, but
for the first time
you cannot because you have no fallback functionality yet ;-(
I can completely understand that. And for all RH/Fedora's organization
and transparency, they always slip a few weeks on each release. That's
to be expected for any large scale project I guess. And to be honest,
having release dates that don't slip isn't that important to me at the
moment. Having a view as to what's supposed to happen and where things
are going is what's important to me. Especially at this early stage.
Having absolutely no Roadmap or release schedule information
externally for the "community" (that I can see at least) I think is a
big mistake. We're not a community at the moment imo. From my
experience on the list, there's little involvement from outside intel
other than questions about if something is supported and why something
doesn't work. In my opinion we won't get to a community level until
there's transparency and involvement. Hopefully the linux foundation
change will help with that side of things and if that was one of the
reasons for making that move then I applaud Intel.
We need know what's going on to some extent. I'm not asking for iron
clad release schedules and don't expect anything like that. But at the
moment there's just nothing and that makes it very hard to justify
supporting this project as a road to our future platform. The only 2
pieces of information I know about are from press coverage and the odd
comment in emails answering questions.
1) The moblin2 platform is aiming at having a 2 second boot time
2) Having a clutter based UI by default over the temporary XFCE desktop.
I don't know how accurate that is and if it's actually official.
Reading back this is starting to sound like a really negative thread.
That's not my intention. You guys are doing a great job on moving this
platform forward with great innovations. I guess I'm just frustrated
as to knowing where you're going and if I can be involved or not.
Kind Regards,
--
Glen Gray <[email protected]> Digital Depot, Thomas Street
Software Engineering Manager Dublin 8, Ireland
Lincor Solutions Ltd. Ph: +353 (0) 1 4893682
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