On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Florian Max <florian.muell...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Emily Gonyer <emilyyr...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Then the design team ought to be more open about what exactly 'their' >> vision for gnome is, as well as open to other ideas/concepts. Insisting on >> doing things their way, while being extremely vague as to what exactly >> their way *is* is not helpful to the rest of the community who is trying to >> get stuff done. >> > > First: the design team is very much trying to get stuff done, just like > the "rest of the community". In fact, the design team is incredibly small > (ergo: overworked). We have an extremely ambitious goal of creating an > operating system, with just a handful of people doing design work towards > that goal - compare that to the resources the likes of Apple or Microsoft > put into their products to get an idea of the workload our folks have. I > certainly have seen maintainers asking for design help on #gnome-design > being turned down because no designer had any time to spend on > yet-another-module. > I think we have a bit of a problem. Our core team has gotten smaller and thus overworked. Because of that they don't have that kind of time to do community management. I would even say that some of you are kinda grumpy. :-) We really need to grow the number of good quality coders. Things like creating a lower bar of entry to code on GNOME is one aspect of an overall problem of getting new blood. It's why we have a perception of companies running the joint rather than a community. GNOME as a project needs to concentrate on bringing in new volunteers so that we can expand the core team. > Which brings us to the matter of openness: the results of everything the > design team does ends up on the GNOME wiki under live.gnome.org/Design. > Of course it would be really fancy if the wiki also contained the reasoning > behind decisions, but let's face it - > Shaun opened up a new thread on this, I will pen my thoughts there. Great thoughts, Florian. Thanks. sri
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