There are no plans for a GNOME 3.0 release at this time … A major rewrite or API break won’t provide any benefit to our users, contributors, or independent developers creating software based on the GNOME platform … A major rewrite or API break is not at all necessary to achieve our goals for or enhance active development on the GNOME experience in the forseeable future.

…verkündet wird…

…aber auf der Entwicklerkonferenz GUADEC 2008 von GNOME jedoch folgendes…

…bekannt gegeben wird. Erinnert mich stark an „[The americans] are going to surrender or be burned in their tanks. They will surrender, it is they who will surrender“-Comical-Ali. Gemein, wenn einen die Geschichte überholt .