Hi, On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 04:35 -0600, Andrew Savory wrote: > Hi, > <snip> > > Focussing in on one area that I can talk about: Qt is perceived by some to be > stronger from a business perspective due to the 'more complete' offering: > extensive documentation and an SDK.
Shaun McCance and I were talking about this a couple of weeks ago. I'm not trying to steal his thunder (and I hope he replies on list) but he has spent a significant amount of time in the last couple of weeks and has put together some thoughts around planning new Developer Docs on lgo[1]. > > Perhaps more focus on and promotion of GNOME's developer tools/sdk offerings > would be a useful meta-goal for the coming year? Somehow enunciating the > proposition that you don't need to be an alpha-dog developer to get engaged > with GTK etc. > > For example, I only recently found out about Anjuta: it's presumably a fairly > important tool for people developing using GNOME technologies, but look at > the results at > http://www.google.com/search?q=anjuta&as_sitesearch=www.gnome.org (Yes, I > know there's a ton of stuff at library.gnome.org, I'm being devil's advocate > here ...) > > > Andrew. > I agree some promotion on GNOME developer tools is a good idea. There is no question from a marketing / segmentation standpoint we serve multiple groups, including users (focus this year on GNOME 3.0), developers and others such as OEM partners, ISVs, etc. But we have a chicken and the egg problem - we need to have the tools and documentation ready, whether that's developer docs, code snippets, before we do some promotion, in my opinion. I've also been watching Jono Bacon drive a similar initiative within the Ubuntu community around Opportunistic Development which has some interesting parallels to this discussion. (They're doing a whole week of activities right now on this). [2] [1] http://live.gnome.org/DocumentationProject/Planning/DeveloperDocs [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpportunisticDeveloperWeek Paul _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list