Gnome3 rescheduled

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I've read the news today and found this:
http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/201 … duled.html
April 1, 2011 — BANGALORE, India — The GNOME Release Team met in India this week to discuss the state of GNOME 3. The Release Team came to a consensus opinion that one more cycle will be required before GNOME 3.0 is ready to be released. The decision was communicated to and approved by the GNOME Foundation Board on a conference call.
The delay of the release comes for a number of reasons. The primary indicator of the unreadiness of the release is the massive number of exceptions that have been requested and granted during the hard code freeze period. There have been several last-minute API changes that have the potential to harm the stability of the release.
The recent announcement that the Mozilla project would discontinue support for embedding has cast doubts on the technical underpinnings of the new GNOME shell. There are also concerns about the frequently shifting visual design and questions about its performance and portability. The release team is also concerned about the possible near-future release of GTK4 and what that means for GNOME as a development platform.
Foremost, the GNOME project is committed to only releasing the highest quality software. Dozens of release-critical blocker bugs remain open with little chance of being fixed by the time of the release.
At this time, there will be no new release in the 2.x series and all developer effort will focus on improvements to GNOME 3.0. The release is being delayed for a full 6 months to avoid scheduling problems for our downstream distributors. During this 6 month period, we will reopen module proposals in the usual way. We are particularly encouraging module proposals from alternate desktop shells, which will be given careful consideration.
The Release Team would like to thank the developers who continue to put tremendous amounts of work into the GNOME project. The level of the quality of the code is at the highest that it has ever been and there is no doubt that we will easily have the best desktop on the planet by September 2011.
Well, at least they will work harder, maybe they will fix some of things that the community hated.
What do you think?
Last edited by AurosGamma (2011-04-01 19:30:52)

Answer 1

superchango wrote:
April 1 in most countries is the April Fools' Day, like the "Día de los Santos Inocentes" (28 Dec) in Ibero America, a day of jokes. Today many news are just joke news.
This could be a joke or not, wait until tomorrow.
Wow i didn't know that (Im fool !), let's wait until tomorrow and see what's happening
Thanks for your answers