Hello, As a long time contributor to the GNOME project, I will take the freedom to directly mail the foundation about the current problems I experience in the GNOME community.
You probably know that I started contributing to GNOME in my spare time back in 2000. I have dedicated countless hours to my project, GnomeMeeting, now known as Ekiga. It means 7 years of development, exclusively done during evenings, nights and week-ends. Ekiga was the first videoconferencing application available for the Linux desktop, and it is nowadays still one of the best Open Source SIP softphones. I have always believed in GNOME and in its community, that is the only way that can motivate you coding that much and that long. However, I am more and more disappointed by the way some people *control* that community, even if they never contributed anything back to it. When I think to Matthias, I am getting mad. Matthias requested an SVN account several months ago, and never got one. When he went on IRC to ask for the account activation, people replied to him that he had to make a new request and wait. One month later, the account is not active yet. Matthias has been contributing thousands of lines of code to Ekiga since several months, and I still need to commit his patches myself. This is inadmissible. When I think to Julien, I am also getting mad. He has been contributing to Ekiga for 5 years. He recently created a blog and asked to Jeff to be added on planet.gnome.org. He was first ignored, then Jeff told him that he had to post often to be added. One day later, another guy was added to planet.gnome.org with 3 posts having been done in a 6 months period. That is what I call dictatorship and boycott of my project. This kind of behavior makes me more and more disappointed about the way things are being handled in GNOME and I am about to move my whole stuff to sourceforge.net and go on my own way. By the way, I do not want this thread to degenerate into a flamewar, that is the reason why I will not answer any mail related to the thread I created. I do not want either to offend the 99% of people who are doing a great job, I sincerely thank them for their work (you know who you are). I just wanted to express my opinion, in the hope that something can be done to improve the situation. -- _ Damien Sandras (o- //\ Ekiga Softphone : http://www.ekiga.org/ v_/_ NOVACOM : http://www.novacom.be/ FOSDEM : http://www.fosdem.org/ SIP Phone : sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
