On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 14:31, Frederic Peters <fpet...@gnome.org> wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 11:38, Johannes Schmid <j...@jsschmid.de> wrote: >> > Pretty good list of examples. All of these projects are mostly driven by >> > Red Hat full-time employees (which isn't a bad thing in general). It >> > happens to be the same company employing big parts of the core design >> > team. >> > >> > While this doesn't mean it is a "closed group" of people, for an outside >> > developer or volunteer it pretty much feels like that even if the >> > individuals of that group are totally open to external >> > contribution/envolvement. >> >> To *who* does it feel that way? If you're going to insinuate that >> people have tried to get involved and been rebuffed, then I think the >> responsibility here falls to you to provide an example. Please don't >> talk around the accusation by inferring that it's some kind of RH >> conspiracy. It's not. > > Johannes is definitely a active member of the GNOME community, and in > my opinion the work he has been doing to make it possible for new > developers to come and use our platform is underestimated (Anjuta, > the dev doc tools hackfest, the continued work on platform demos, > etc.). > > Therefore I don't think you should dismiss what he wrote, as if he had > just a vague knowledge of our community, mimicking his message as > "there's a Red Hat conspiracy".
I know who Johannes is. Let me be more clear: Johannes, do you fear that the design team is exclusionary or have you actually seen it happen? If the later, let's see if there is something from that experience that informs about a way we can improve things. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list