This is definitely something we should keep an eye on, but I think some of the worry is premature. The reaction to McCann's post from other GNOME contributors seems to be overwhelmingly negative.
Something else I noticed, and consider very intriguing, is that Brian Cameron chimed in, speaking for Oracle, with some encouraging words. I assumed Oracle had anything desktop-related on the back burner, and certainly wouldn't have expected them to step into this fray. Considering the Solaris 10 history, I would not have been surprised to see Oracle stop at GNOME 2.30 and drag it on as the "Oracle Solaris" desktop for five or six years; if Oracle employees are weighing in, in an official capacity, reaffirming the existing Sun investments in the project, I feel less threatened by the comments of Linux heads like McCann. On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 1:22 AM, Christopher Chan < [email protected]> wrote: > On Friday, May 20, 2011 01:14 PM, Allan E. Registos wrote: > >> On Friday, 20 May, 2011 07:08 AM, Bayard Bell wrote: >> >>> I've read most of the thread, and I don't see anyone drifting that way. >>> >>> Instead I see people saying that they aren't too worried about >>> kFreeBSD because it's a "toy" OS and then some varying degrees of >>> sectarianism and ecumenism about Linux distros. What I took away from >>> it was that there are a handful of developers who have some very >>> strong views favouring Linux specificity but that almost anyone >>> identifying themselves as members of the GNOME foundation or with a >>> gnome.org address has the desire to limit focus to a single platform >>> and rather think that the project's social skills need improvement. >>> It's probably not coincidental that the thread fires up around systemd >>> integration and that it's RH people associated with systemd >>> development appear a majority of the handful given to categorical >>> assertions about the wisdom of narrowed platform specificity. >>> >> This rumor will become true when according to this article: >> >> http://www.osnews.com/story/24762/GNOME_Discusses_Becoming_a_Linux-only_Project >> >> >> The fact of the matter is this, however: if systemd becomes an >> external dependency for GNOME-Shell, this is effectively what is >> happening anyway. GNOME-Shell requires systemd which requires Linux. >> For all intents and purposes, it would turn GNOME into a Linux-only >> project. >> >> > Someone says it's not the whole of systemd but dbus... > > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
