Proposal to delay release of Precise Pangolin

[Martin Owens]

On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 22:15 -0400, nick rundy wrote:
> Yet the bug has existed for more than 3 years. Sadly, the same can be
> said for many other bugs.

To be fair to the bug:

 * No one answered the question 'did you try compact layout'
 * Nautilus is a 'special' codebase which I wouldn't want to touch again
this side of the 21st century, ugly and duplicative spaghetti.
 * Anything to do with how something looks, workflow or speed is not
going to get fixed by the fire fighters or cathedral builders. 
 * These types of bugs are too big/complex for quick patches and too
small or unimportant for critical attention.
 * Nouser continues to pay for bug fixes, no economics and no other
relationship between programmer and user. The gnome programmer deals
with bugs as he feels like it and expects patches.

I understand your point Nick, I'd really like a cycle that focuses
_only_ on bug fixing and nothing else. But I'd also like a cycle that
took everyone off coding to train a 100 new kernel hackers and 50 new
xorg slaves.

If wishes could be put in dishes the world would be delicious.

Best Regards, Martin Owens