Subject: Re: Need volunteers to coordinate extra apps release for GNOME 1.4
From: sam th (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Tue Sep 26 2000 - 00:25:53 CDT
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Martin Sevior wrote:
>
>
> On 22 Sep 2000, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > A bunch of use (including me and Jacob and the steering committee)
> > discussed the idea of having an extra apps distribution for GNOME
> > 1.4. While GNOME 1.4 would be kept to the core desktop and development
> > platform, this extra distribution would contain other useful apps,
> > things like Gabber or Gnumeric or Dia or GnuCash, and also deprecated
> > but still supported things like gmc or gnome-pim. These applications
> > will be certified as reasonably useful, and tested with 1.4.
> >
> > I would like 1 or 2 (or maybe 3 if you can work very well together)
> > volunteers to coordinate this extra apps release. Jacob and I, as
> > GNOME 1.4 release coordinators, will provide whoever volunteers with
> > advice and help coordinate this with the 1.4 schedule.
> >
> > The extra apps distribution could go out right with GNOME 1.4, or a
> > little bit after. It's important not to jump just any app in here by
> > the way; including the whole GNOME Software Map probably wouldn't work
> > out so well. The focus should be on apps that are stable and tested
> > with 1.4. Also, apps that integrate well with GNOME and are not just
> > straight Gtk+ should be favored.
>
> <snip>
>
> >
> > If you'd like to volunteer, please send me mail, I'll present the
> > candidates to the steering committee, and we will pick someone
> > (assuming there is more than one candidate :-). If you want to do it
> > as team of more than one, please send mail as a team.
>
> On behalf of the abiword team I volenteer to coordinate an Abiword release
> to be included with the extras release of gnome 1.4.
>
I'm also willing to work on this. I'm back at school, so I have a fast
internet connection and more free time, so I'll be able to hack lots more
AbiWord stuff.
Martin, what do you think of my binary proposal?
And what's the Gnome 1.4 timeframe?
sam th
sam@uchicago.edu
http://www.abisource.com/~sam
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b25 : Tue Sep 26 2000 - 00:25:57 CDT