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I think some people may want to take over Unity 8 and continue developing it. An obvious characteristic of the open source community is divergence, which means
by kerneldeveloper 10y ago
I think some people may want to take over Unity 8 and continue developing it. An obvious characteristic of the open source community is divergence, which means forking an existing project or reinventing wheels. Although I'm a GTK developer, I also think Unity is a good desktop environment because of its usability to the non-technical user. But, I still don't like the Canonical's work style that reinvents too many things, such as Bazaar. I like Launchpad for its convenience, while I think Bazaar is awful compared with Git.
- rleigh 10y agoBazaar (bzr) had valid reasons for existing. It predated git and mercurial, being based upon GNU Arch (tla) and baz. At the time, it was pretty cutting edge. While it was eclipsed by later arrivals, we weren't to know that without the benefit of hindsight. While I never used it, being a tla user at that point in time, I would not criticise it as not being worthwhile or being a pointless reinvention, since it was neither. Divergence isn't always bad. It's often needed to make any forward progress when the incumbents have stagnated. I'm grateful for all projects which attempt to push the boundaries. Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't. Bazaar didn't, and now it seems Unity didn't. But both were worth the effort put into them.