Gnome 2.16 and Xorg 7.x

[Andrew Pantyukhin]

On 10/18/06, Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 01:31:20PM -0400, Michael Johnson wrote:
> > On 10/18/06, Pavel Porubov <pporubov at sky.ru> wrote:
> > >Please add Gnome 2.16 and Xorg 7.x to the next FreeBSD 6.2. After about
> > >a month there will be Gnome 2.18 and you want to to add to FreeBSD 6.2
> > >just Gnome 2.14. Thanks.
> > >
> >
> > Well.. just because you asked so nice we will put GNOME 2.16 in
> > FreeBSD 6.2.
>
> You travelled back in time a few months to start work on it, too - now
> THAT's service!

I'm just thinking, why do we always have to lag behind? Can't
we just once release something before it's been written (and long
before it's been ported to FreeBSD)? Just for kicks.