> GNOME does have a history of starting over from scratch every few years; The GNOME project will be 20 years old in a couple of months. So while it might feel

> GNOME does have a history of starting over from scratch every few years; The GNOME project will be 20 years old in a couple of months. So while it might feel like "every few years", we really don't change direction all that often. As you can imagine, those that show up to do work have a great deal of say in where the project goes. > you probably had a good reason for writing Builder instead of working on Anjuta, and that's just the way the GNOME community seems to do things. > This makes people, especially power users, disproportionately angry because when you rewrite something You've sort of made my argument for not changing Anjuta over the years. We knew the amount of stuff that had to be changed would leave both the code-base and UI looking very little like Anjuta. Best to let people continue using it in the mean time. > (I still cry a little inside any time I remember Galeon. It lives on as Epiphany and is the primary driver of the WebKitGtk backend.