GNOME: Staring Into the Abyss 535
New submitter zixxt writes "GTK+ Developer Benjamin Otte talks about the stagnation and decline of the Gnome Project. He describes how core developers are leaving GNOME development, how GNOME is understaffed, why GNOME is a Red Hat project and why GNOME is losing market and mind share. Is the Gnome project on its deathbed? Quoting: 'I first noticed this in 2005 when Jeff Waugh gave his 10×10 talk. Back then, the GNOME project had essentially achieved what it set out to do: a working Free desktop environment. Since then, nobody has managed to set new goals for the project. In fact, these days GNOME describes itself as a “community that makes great software”, which is as nondescript as you can get for software development. The biggest problem with having no goals is that you can’t measure yourself. Nobody can say if GNOME 3 is better or worse than GNOME 2. There is no recognized metric anywhere. This also leads to frustration in lots of places.'"
I won't believe it... (Score:2, Funny)
...until Netcraft confirms it.
Re:Reason? GNOME3 (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I'll say it! (Score:3, Funny)
By far. Plus more.
Double plus ungood even.
Nope, we _can_ say. (Score:5, Funny)
Nobody can say if GNOME 3 is better or worse than GNOME 2. There is no recognized metric anywhere
False. GNOME 2 was most certainly better than GNOME 3, and the metric used to measure quality is number of "what the fuck"s, "how the fuck"s, and "why the fuck"s per hour (lower is better).
Re:Reason? NIGGERS! (Score:3, Funny)
I am absolutely serious -- GNOME3 UI is worse than goatse.