On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 21:09 -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > The consequence would be that gnucash would have to get dropped from > Debian until the gnome-2 branch can be built for Debian.
This is not unreasonable nor unexpected. > There are some things that I have been asked; they are mean questions, > and I don't repeat them because I imply they are fair, but only > because if there are good answers to give, it would help me fight the > fight. > > 1. People want to know why gnucash is still transitioning, three years > after gnome 2 started out. That's the big one. It's a big app with some custom widgetry, a dead graphing library to be replaced by an only-recently-factored out graphing library (with dependencies not aligned with ours.) More importantly, though: few developers with limited time and a sprawling codebase limiting new-developer adoption. > 2. People are worried that lots of unrelated development is being done in > the gnome-2 branch; that is, that it is delayed not because of the > work of adapting to the new gnome libraries, but because a whole bunch > of other stuff was attempted at the same time. There has been some. I don't believe it has gotten in the way of or delayed the g2 port, though it might delay the release end-game. Certinaly it would be nicer if all available resources were brought to bear on the G2 port. I believe, and I think there's concensus around, excising things like the unfinished budgeting work if it's going to block a release. I'm not sure of any new work that we'd have to commit to finishing at this point. > 3. People want assurance that gnome-1 won't need to be maintained forever > in Debian. They would feel a lot better if there could be some > plausible statement like "transition is expected to finish by > such-and-such a date". I know such things are impossible, but if > there is *something* that can be said, it would ease a lot of people. That statement is presently not plausible. GNOME2_STATUS *is* reducing over time. I'm thinking a 6-month timeframe, but I've said that before. It's a more reasonable thing to say now, however. ...jsled -- http://asynchronous.org/ - `a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
