Hi there, I'm writing in order to share my concerns about the lack of strategic roadmap on GNOME. So far, GNOME is doing pretty well with the 6-month cycle. It's added stability into GNOME. Yes, GNOME is rock solid !. We can feel proud of that. However,though every subproject has his own roadmap, IMHO, in the big picture, GNOME lacks of direction.
The only sort of real recent strategical movement is GNOME 3.0. I think our community has to keep the stability, but from time to time we need to stop and think we are we going. Some questions that arise to my mind when I think if GNOME is going in the right directions are: * GTK is losing popularity. It is perceived by a lot of people as old and difficult. I think we need any kind of action on this area because is a cornerstone issue. Less programmers means less applications and contributions. We need to care of our platform users in the same way we care of our desktop users. Some people has pointed this in the past, eg [1] * Corporate free desktop keeps as an unexplored field. Can GNOME be the first to conquer this wild land?. Nobody seems to care about this. The only step on this direction I know is APOC [2] * It seems we have lost the mobile battle. Can we do something about it or simply retreat?. I like the idea of creating more components and some of this components can be added to the GNOME mobile platform. Of course, these are only some examples of directions we can take. The point is that if we agree to some kind of direction then we can focus our resources on that direction. Just my 2 cents, -- Juanjo Marín [1] http://live.gnome.org/GUADEC/2008/Slides?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=marketing_gtk_Guadec2008.pdf [2] http://apoc.freedesktop.org/wiki/ [3] http://blog.tomeuvizoso.net/2010/01/one-more-opportunistic-dot.html _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
