On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 08:25:44 -0700 Glen Gray <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. The change over to the Linux Foundation is in the process of happening. And I do see quite a few non-Intel people contributing here on this list and elsewhere. But of course we want to see a lot more of that. > 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 I'd call this an aspirational goal. Certainly not something that we'd commit to for the first release. > 2) Having a clutter based UI by default over the temporary XFCE desktop. Yes, that is something we are still working on. > 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. You can be involved - we WANT you to be involved. As to a roadmap... Arjan is of course right... Rough ideas... we'll have a couple of beta releases - something like six to eight weeks total... add time for a release candidate... I'm thinking early summer for a release. Plus/minus six weeks? I know many people would rather see us say "June 42nd" - but that would just be a random date and as a mathematician I am allergic to false precision. /D _______________________________________________ Moblin dev Mailing List [email protected] To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: https://lists.moblin.org/mailman/listinfo/dev or your user account on http://moblin.org once logged in. For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists
