On 9/11/05, BJörn Lindqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It doesn't exist. I think a metacity-list would be really really > useful. Pretty please? :)
As Havoc, said, I think the big question is finding out what problems this would address or what new advantages it would bring. I believe there may be things that we should address, but I'm not sure yet if a mailing list is what we need (a wiki page, an extra file in CVS with a little more info, or other solutions may work). If it is though, I'd like to avoid the "annoying discussions" that could easily happen[1]. Your question did make me think about potential problems, though. Besides sucking at reviewing patches[2], I did think of one other potential problem (please let me know if there are others). We're not doing very well about communicating what is being worked on and why[3], which makes it a little harder for potential contributors trying to find their way around. Yet it looks like we may (hopefully!) be gaining more and more contributors[4]. Some way of sharing this information better may help this group. Thanks for your work on Metacity, btw. Cheers, Elijah [1] Perhaps this could be done by calling it metacity-devel-list and limiting it to stuff that didn't fit into bugzilla (e.g. roadmap, who's working on what, what the development branches are for, questions about how certain parts of the code work by those who are trying to certain bugs, etc.) [2] Such as with bug 314977 and bug 170475 from you--both of which looked fine at quick glance, btw, though I didn't have time to test or look closer yet. [3] For example, the spiffifity branch was created and was being worked on without me even knowing until after the fact (though Havoc did tell me soon after in email). Similar thing happened with the constraints_experiments branch that was created recently, though this time I was the one doing the creating. There's also been emails I sent Havoc asking for details about how certain parts of the code worked or bouncing preliminary ideas off him that could have potentially helped others. [4] Those who have contributed at least some and have said or somehow hinted to me that they plan to work more on Metacity include you, Ray Strode, Brent Smith, Billy Biggs, Aidan Delaney, Jaap Haitsma, Dave Ahlswede, Soeren, Rob, Havoc (does the maintainer count as a contributor?), me, and probably others I missed. Granted, we still have periods with lower amounts of development and maintenance since none of us are super active, and some on that list may not still be interested, but it does seem like it's growing and getting better overall. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list