On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 15:39 +0200, Seif Lotfy wrote:
> > • Encourage more cooperation on design between RH and > Canonical. > > What do you mean concretely (design of what)? Why RH and > Canonical > specifically? > > > I left out Intel, Nokia, Novell and others because their main focus > now is on Meego which on a design level I do not consider a GNOME > project. I think that cooperation must be improved at all levels, not only at design. > Currently RH and Canonical both have started their own design & user > experience to improve the usability of GNOME. Both however seem to be > heading to the same goal but with different designs that could on a > shallow level end up leaving GNOME in an diverging state (Shell vs > Unity). Both should start cooperating on the design level. One could > start off with a design board combining selected and competent > representatives from community and companies, whose first objective is > to rewrite the HIG. gnome-shell is working upstream, _is_ a GNOME project, and Unity isn't. Moreover, I wasn't realised of their existence since very lately, and GNOME shell is been working from about a year. Sincerely, I have no idea of their motivation for this "fork". Reading a post from Tomeu Vizoso [1] I noticed that Ubuntu people doesn't have too much idea of GNOME GObject introspection. This sounds strange to me. Maybe they should have done better for been informed of this, but I'm sure we can do better too. What I want to mean is that we can problem like this at all levels, not only at design level. It seems that GNOME needs to improve the communication channels with downstreams (Red Hat, Canonical, Intel, Nokia, Novell, etc). We need active actions for this, it seems that transparency on GNOME project is not enough. And I know that we have the Advisory Board for that, but this model is not working neither. Maybe we need some periodical meetings with technical staff of downstream projects. Maybe we can organize this sort of meeting at GUADEC or we can organize hackfest for this. -- Juanjo marin [1] http://blog.tomeuvizoso.net/2010/05/ubuntu-and-gobject-introspection.html _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list