Being a reader of the DistroWatch weekly column, I noticed many comments and opinions about Gnome 3, showing a generalized interest about it, along this week
Once the Paldo Gnome 3 release was not announced in DW, and because there are not yet many Distros with a Gnome 3 stable version, I tried to send a comment, on Monday, telling about its release, in the hope it would be interesting for the readers there to know it. For some reason the comment was not published and I decided to email Distrowatch to let them know about the Paldo Gnome3 and ask if they could make a reference to it or let me comment about it in the comments section.
I was not successful, as it can be seen bellow, from the emails we exchanged.
Unfortunately it seems that a small Linux distribution does not deserve much attention, at Distrowatch.
I hope the reason for that isn't about the amount of traffic that a Distro may bring to the DW site, instead of the quality that it may or may not have.
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Since May last year, Paldo has become a rolling release. They used to announce new releases every three months, but due to that change, no news were disclosed, except on the past 20th this month, as due to the adoption of the Gnome 3, a small note was displayed at their news site section.
As this may not be easy for you to catch, I thought it could be a good idea to address the release in the comments section in the DWW.
Unfortunately, I've not been able to enter it in there, so I decided to come by this way to let you now.
The link to the news (a very short note) is this:
http://www.paldo.org/
News
GNOME 3, Linux 2.6.38, and systemd in stable20 Apr 2011
We are pleased to announce that GNOME 3.0.0, Linux 2.6.38.3, and systemd v24 are now available in paldo stable.
glibc 2.13, gcc 4.6.0, and Python 2.7.1 are available in paldo unstable.
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> As this may not be easy for you to catch, I thought it could be a good idea
> to address the release in the comments section in the DWW.
Please don't do this! Imagine if everybody keeps posting every little
news about their favourite distro - what would the comments section
look like? If you find an interesting piece of news please email me
and I might mention it in the next DWW.
Unfortunately, Paldo's announcements are always so ridiculously short,
there isn't much to quote. But if you write up a little paragraph
about it, expanding a bit on the news, I'll be happy to publish it
next Monday.
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"Imagine if everybody keeps posting every little
news about their favourite distro - what would the comments section
look like?"
Due to its novelty, a distro release based on Gnome 3 is great news to the innumerable distro hoppers who follow DW looking for new releases, for the Gnome appreciators, no matter what their favourite distro is, and also for the Linux users in general, as many may also be interested to explore and see how Gnome 3 is being dealt by the various distros.
There's a very limited number of Gnome 3 stable releases issued so far, and I'm of the opinion that the news about the Paldo release, no matter if in the comments section or anywhere else, would be well appreciated by many.
I'm disappointed to notice that your opinion is different and that you don't even care to make that announcement by your own.
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> I'm disappointed to notice that your opinion is different and that you don't
> even care to make that announcement by your own.
Since you feel so energetic, there is an easy solution to the problem:
email paldo and offer to write "proper" release announcements or
release notes, then set up an RSS feed (or an announce mailing list)
for the project. This will be far far more effective than posting
little messages on DWW.
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Everybody is discussing in this week's DWW comments the impressions about the very few Distros who are known to have released a stable version of the Gnome 3. Paldo is a very small Distro community that is in the DW data base and did also release a stable version of it.
It may or may not be a very good Gnome 3 implementation, but the majority of the common DW readers will not have the chance to evaluate it in the next few days. You are the DW owner, you did not like the way how Paldo announced it and you made the decision to boycott any reference to the Paldo Gnome 3 release announcement in this week's DWW comments section.
Under your vision it's a problem that can be solved with an energetic but easy solution. As you explained how that's done, I'll address the emails we exchanged to the Paldo developers to let them know that at this moment any reference to the announcement of Paldo Gnome 3 is disallowed in DW and what's the way how to solve it.
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