Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (824 mails)

[Gary Ekker <gekker@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 10:52 +0200, Richard Guenther wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Francis Giannaros wrote:
> 
> > On 9/2/07, Bernhard Walle <bwalle@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > * Alberto Passalacqua <alberto.passalacqua@xxxxxx> [2007-09-02 17:52]:
> > > > during a discussion on IRC it emerged that GNOME still has a very high
> > > > number of blockers and critical bugs.
> > >
> > > GNOME will be updated before release.
> > 
> > Perhaps you could clarify what this means? Is it hoped that the
> > updates and final release will solve all the 200+ bugs? The only
> > reason I ask about this is because I notice around the place the
> > general sense from some users of neglect for GNOME in openSUSE, which
> > I know is certainly as a statement unfair; but I can see why some of
> > them might question things when you take a look at comparative figures
> > like this (GNOME 200+ with a lot of blockers, KDE just 64, and dealing
> > with a web browser).
> > 
> > It would be a real shame to have GNOME slip behind as it did in 10.2
> > which I think everyone will agree was not ideal.
> 
> I suppose for the quality of GNOME it would be more helpful if people
> would report issues upstream.  At least if the perception is correct
> that bugs in openSUSE GNOME are only fixed by pulling new releases
> from upstream.

That perception is not accurate. Although we are tracking some of these
bugs upstream and taking the fixes from the upstream release as they
become available.

-Gary

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