Hi, Olav Vitters wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 08:39:12AM -0300, Evandro Fernandes Giovanini wrote: >> Telling people to switch distributions is a much bigger turn off than >> you realize. The barrier to contributing to GNOME should not be that >> high, and many will follow the "switch to a different OS" advice as >> "contribute to something else, this is too much". That doesn't help >> anyone. > > Anyone is welcome to help out on IRC. > > I don't really get your comment though. Sometimes people do not want to > switch, so ehr.. they say so and I continue giving the best advice while > keeping in mind that restriction. So sometimes I've said 'ask your > distro'.
I echo what Evandro's saying. If someone is coming to IRC asking how to get GNOME 3 compiled, or how they can contribute to GNOME, and you're leading with "change distributions", that's potentially very damaging. For a start, you're a member of the release team, so people could take this as official GNOME policy. And for a second thing, it could be perceived as "Ubuntu users can't contribute to GNOME". If you don't know how to get GNOME 3 working on Ubuntu, or how to contribute on Ubuntu, perhaps that's what you should say (and let someone else help). Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [email protected] _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
