Your agenda, especially the part about development infrastructure looks very interesting, excellent.
On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 2:50 AM, Federico Mena Quintero <feder...@gnome.org> wrote: > Candidacy statement for the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors > > Name: Federico Mena Quintero > Email: feder...@gnome.org > Corporate affiliation: Suse > > Hello, everyone, > > My candidacy is around two things: the Code of Conduct for GNOME, and > our development infrastructure. > > * Code of Conduct > > Over the past year or so, I have been a support member of the Code of > Conduct Working Group. While the group's task of drafting and > proposing the Events Code of Conduct are done, the CoC is not in place > yet. If I am elected as a member of the Board, I would like to help > put the Events Code of Conduct in place, along with its enforcement > guidelines. Along with the other members of the CoC Working Group, I > attended one training session about CoC enforcement by Sage Sharp from > Otter Tech. As part of the Board, I would like to make it possible > for GNOME conference organizers to attend such training sessions and > set up the infrastructure for having Code of Conduct enforcement in > all of GNOME's events. > > As an extension of that, I would like to help with updating GNOME's > Code of Conduct at large, not just for events. Think of our online > interactions within the project - gitlab, mailing lists, etc. Our > current CoC has obsolete form and practices, and with all the > knowledge there is now about how to have a good Code of Conduct - and > all the organizations that can assist us in making one and validating > it - I think we can have a modern CoC that will make GNOME friendlier > to a diverse set of people. > > * Development infrastructure > > Several things are converging in GNOME to make it a much more > attractive to new contributors: we now have Gitlab, which makes it > easy for people to submit changes, and Flatpak, which makes it easy to > ship applications and SDKs. > > However, there are some parts of our development infrastructure which > have gotten stale. My pet peeve is developer's documentation. We > have a mixture of DocBook, gtk-doc, Markdown, and a disparate set of > tools. Our devel docs get rendered to HTML versions of DocBook > documents, which is... very last decade. It shows up in > developer.gnome.org and in tools like Devhelp, and it is outdated in > both. > > I think we can make use of the new GNOME Internships program to tackle > some problems. > > - Improving our documentation tools so they use more modern > documentation formats, or that render and aggregate docs to more > useful versions. > > - Do an editing pass over all of GNOME's developer documentation. I > want to take inspiration from the Rust docs project, which has found > a good way to parallelize huge editing/writing tasks like these by > humans. > > - Finish the necessary work to integrate something like Bors/Homu into > our Gitlab instance, so that we have repositories that never break, > and so that it is possible to automate many menial tasks around > rebasing, integration testing, and reviewing merge requests. > > * Reaching out to underrepresented language communities > > Last year, as an Outreachy project I tried and failed to recruit > people to translate GNOME to indigenous languages from Mexico - > Náhuatl, Mayan, Mixe, etc. I think GNOME could set the example by > funding people to translate our desktop to these languages. This > cannot be done by unpaid volunteers, as they generally live within > several layers of marginalization. We need translations (and new > vocabularies for concepts that we cannot borrow from other software, > since they are untranslated to these languages), keyboard maps, and > outreach in general to these communities. > > Federico > _______________________________________________ > foundation-announce mailing list > foundation-annou...@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-announce > > -- -mvh Oliver Propst
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