What this? Apparently at UDS this was already discussed and Empathy is going to replace Pidgin-- <div><a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Specs/Karmic/MessagingAndCommunicationSelection">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Specs/Karmic/MessagingAndCommunicationSelection</a><br> <div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 16:04, Asif Youssuff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:yoasif@gmail.com">yoasif@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div class="im">On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 20:39 +0100, Alexander H Deriziotis wrote:<br> > This would be a pretty bad move regarding Ubuntu's development model.<br> > With a 6-month release cycle, things need to remain cutting edge. If<br> > every release is just going to be a rehash of a previous one, then<br> > Canonical should be releasing at least yearly.<br> <br> </div>Yes, a rehash is so much worse than releasing stuff that is *worse* than<br> what came before. Obviously I disagree -- I think that there is a real<br> problem with the idea that "newer is better" -- I believe that better is<br> better -- and sometimes that means it's newer, and sometimes that means<br> waiting until the newer item is actually better.<br> <br> Ubuntu shouldn't be focused on being newer, it should be focused on<br> being better -- if it's not better, bug #1 doesn't /deserve/ to be<br> closed.<br> <font color="#888888"><br> -Asif<br> <br> </font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><a href="http://www.google.com/profiles/danny.piccirillo">http://www.google.com/profiles/danny.piccirillo</a><br> </div></div>