If Vitters or a any of the other GNOME developers desire devuan to have GNOME so much, then by all means, let them come here, contribute code in a way that does not interfere with the rest of the project, and play nice with the rest of devuan, well let them come.:)
Hell, I might give GNOME another try, I might even check out that awful new UI metaphors they are so happy with, as long as they speed the thing up a bit of course. Using it was like swimming in mud.

On December 6, 2014 1:46:30 AM EET, John Morris <jmorris@???> wrote:
>On Fri, 2014-12-05 at 14:35 +0100, Olav Vitters wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 02:54:09PM +0200, Vlad wrote:
>> > I would propose that we do not waste any time with GDM, GNOME or
>> > anything else that has sprung out of that irresponsible
>organizations
>> > other than gtk.
>>
>> There's so much hate going on in within Devuan, it is rather
>ridiculous.
>> This is a public mailing list!
>>
>> To nobody in specific: If there are needs with concrete technical
>> solutions and a willingness to commit, feel free to have a discussion
>> with either release-team@??? or on
>desktop-devel-list@???.
>
>Posting this requires some real disconnect with reality. The whole
>point of this fiasco is GNOME demanding that systemd be considered
>integral, that both be taken or neither. This tactic has brought much
>success, all but a couple of fringe distributions considered GNOME to
>be
>important enough that any demand would be met. If it were believed to
>be possible to package GNOME in such a way that systemd support could
>be
>contained within optional side packages and alternatives that is likely
>what Debian would have went with and this whole project and mailing
>list
>wouldn't exist.
>
>To now come here and demand that accommodation be made for packaging
>GDM/GNOME/etc be undertaken by the much smaller team here and to double
>down and insist that refusal to waste time considering such an
>improbable course of action is attributable to 'hate' is pure hubris.
>A
>thing cannot be and not be at the same time. Either GNOME depends on
>systemd or it doesn't. After over a year of insisting that it does,
>please don't become offended when people believe you guys.
>
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