Luis made a couple of points I agree with about an eventual leap to 3.0.
One of the major reasons for what he calls the fear to fail is the fact that the 6 monthly release cycles, which were necessary to stabilise the 2.0 work, and have been a huge boon overall for GNOME, are not suited to 3.0 work. They are just too short. For a platform as big as GNOME, to get any big user-visible features in a release cycle, it needs to be at least 9 months, and perhaps a year.
I know I’m not the first one to have said this, but I’m more & more convinced that the 6 month cycle has outlived its usefulness.
