Tomeu:
On 04/26/12 02:06 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 15:10, Alberto Ruiz<[email protected]> wrote: I'm afraid that interfering in the maintainer's responsibilities is a very big can of worms, more likely to do harm than good. There's something powerful in how a maintainer feels responsible about his module and the community that surrounds it.
Some of my thoughts about the GNOME maintainer community, aside from the fact that they do a great job. 1) There really are not any good forums for communicating with core GNOME maintainers as a group. Looking at MaintainersCorner I see that GNOME only requires maintainers to subscribe to devel-announce-list. I suppose much communication happens on desktop-devel-list and foundation-list, but it seems hard to figure out how to have a dialog with the maintainers as a group or how to make decisions. A lot of problems might solve themselves if we made it easier for maintainers to focus on decision making when needed. 2) Many distros are currently supporting GNOME 2 based distros. While I think it is good that our development community is focused on GNOME 3, it is also important to encourage distros to cooperate as they maintain GNOME 2 and keep it working well so that the brand is strong and positive. I remember Vincent suggesting that core GNOME 2 modules might need additional maintainers in order to provide ongoing support to do cooperative efforts like this. To make something like this work well requires coordination and decision making amongst maintainers. Providing more support for more branches might require more infrastructure. It seems it should be possible to strike a better balance between focusing energy on new development while providing more impressive support for those who continue to depend on GNOME 2. I'd say there is probably enough topics to warrant having a Maintainers BOF or something at GUADEC where topics like this might be discussed. I think it would be great if we could find new ways to augment our maintainer community, or to make our decision-making processes easier and more transparent. And probably a good forum to discuss what sorts of Usability rules resonate most with maintainers. Brian _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
