Talking with Claudio I suggested him to push a mini-gnome-goal to update README, HACKING and any file containing possibly outdated contact information. Maybe even using a template as a guide. What do you think?
On 3/20/07, Luis Menina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi to all GNOME lovers! > > The GNOME Goals project, launched by Vincent Untz last year (ok, I > missed the birthday by 3 days ;-) ) has been mostly abandonned for a few > months. > > http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals > > For those who may not know, the GNOME Goals are an easy way for new > contributer-wannabees to start helping GNOME in some way. It's one of > the many gates to enter in the community, and join the project. > > I've recently talked to Vincent Untz about this subject at FOSDEM. I > thought (like many others) that GNOME Goals were an important access > gate, and it was sad that they started dying when Vincent had less time > to push them forward. > > However, after seing Claudio Saavedra adding recently GNOME Goal #3 ( > http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/ApplicationCategory ), and > Xan Lopez wanting to spread some GTK love ( > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2007-March/msg00017.html , > http://live.gnome.org/GtkLove ), I thought it could be great if we > could team up to have the GNOME Goals reborn from ashes. > > For this to happen, we should define some guidelines: > - define the regularity of each goal (the 2-weeks basis looked good to > have the project feel strong and alive) > - define what to do with old goals (how to complete them) > - define how a new goal is chosen, and who choses it > - define people who can find qualified people to review the guidelines > before a new GNOME Goal is launched (to avoid misleading people with > incorrect guidelines as we did in the past: > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=362604 ) > - define the different domains we want to cover (performance, HIG > compliance, code update for new widgets, documentation, etc.), with some > of them requiring NO programming knowledge. > -define how we will popularize this action: gnome-love mailing list, > wiki, blogs of the the teams members, planet.gnome.org and localized > gnome planets. We could also when a goal is open cross post the annouce > on another mailing list of the domain of that goal (for example on > gtk-devel-list for GTK widgets migration, performance-list for performance) > > We should also have some rules: > - the goals must be of reasonable size and of easy complexity. > - they should be easily applied to many softwares. The patches are > centralized on the wiki page, wich will be helpful for newbies who want > to see how someone else did it, meaning they will really *learn* from > the process. > - the guidelines must be self explaining, so they can be easily understood > - a goal can't be set if no team member has time to answer eventual > questions about that goal > - everything must be traced and centralized in bugzilla. Maybe with a > the gnome-love keyword. All GNOME goals would then have the gnome-love > keyword, without all the bugs with the gnome-love keyword being actually > GNOME goals. That way people looking for easy tasks could also find > GNOME goals among them. > - an application that is not maintained, or for wich the maintainer or > developpers never answer for help to achieve a goal should be removed > from the applications list. Asking newcommers to work or write patches > with nobody to help them, or read their work is awfully unrewarding, and > we must avoid that as much as possible. > > The GNOME Goal #0 is : convert as many GNOME users we can to actually > become *contributors* > > Here are some proposals. Tell me if you found them good (or bad)... All > contructive remarks are appreciated. > > I'd also like to know if Claudio and/or Xan would be willing to put some > time here, to build a GNOME Goals team... > > Let's make GNOME rock even more altogether! > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-love mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-love > _______________________________________________ gnome-love mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-love
