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GNOME 2.12 released

Submitted by stro on Wed, 2005-09-07 13:45. Gnome 2.x
Gnome 2.x

Today, the GNOME Project celebrates the release of GNOME 2.12, the latest
version of the popular, multi-platform Free desktop environment.

Released on schedule, to the day, it is the culmination of six months effort
by GNOME contributors around the world: hackers, documentors, usability and
accessibility specialists, translators, maintainers, sysadmins, companies,
artists, users and testers. Due to their hard work, we have another great
release to be proud of - thanks very much to every contributor!

You'll find plenty of information about GNOME 2.12 in our extensive release
notes, linked from the 2.12 start page.

All about GNOME 2.12: http://www.gnome.org/start/2.12/

Meanwhile, GNOME developers around the world are looking forward to working
on fresh new features for the next version of GNOME, due in March, 2006.

A prize then?

Submitted by Anonymous George on Sat, 2005-09-10 03:12.

So if we hear complaints about speed for few years and nothing happens then maybe money would help? Perhaps a community could fund a prize for a programmer (or team) that would submit patches resulting in substantial speed improvement. Is there any foundation that could organize such fundraising and awarding the prize?

And specifically to previous poster: no, I don't think they are lazy and certainly they are not idiots. Perhaps they just have other things to do and auditing the code for bottlenecks isn't exactly that exciting to get them motivated.

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