Hi, I got involved in GNOME (indirectly) thanks to this blog series: "Why gnome.org Rocks" https://blogs.gnome.org/johannes/2010/06/04/why-gnome-org/
At that time I was developing a GTK+ application (LaTeXila), hosted partly on GitHub and partly on SourceForge. Handling translator contributions was painful, some sent me mails with a .po file attached, others did pull requests on github, others sent me patches, etc. So gnome.org was really attractive to me, mainly for the translations handling. So I've made the request to host LaTeXila on gnome.org, and it got accepted. One year later I started to contribute to other GNOME modules, and since I already had a GNOME git account and was familiar with the GNOME hosting platform etc, it was much easier for me to start contributing (and I had already several years of experience with GTK+). So, by promoting the gnome.org project hosting platform, you'll get more _experienced_ developers that can more easily contribute to other GNOME modules and become core GNOME developers. Of course it's important to not accept every random project, as it is explained in the wiki. But I think some projects would benefit from being hosted on gnome.org. What do you think? Sébastien _______________________________________________ engagement-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list
