On 07/19/2012 06:54 AM, Kristian Rietveld wrote: > Also, I struggle to identify with the community these days -- that > is, I do not agree how GTK+ is being developed. Discussions appear to > mainly happen on IRC, which I can impossibly follow, contrary to on > the mailing list;
Now that you mention this, I have noticed practically no traffic on any of the devel lists in the last few years. I am probably not alone in thinking GTK development had stalled (though GTK 3 is obvious evidence to the contrary!). Does not give a good message to potential GTK users who want to check things out. The non-devel lists do have a fair amount of traffic, but it is now somewhat rare to have core GTK developers participate like they used to in the old days. I agree heartily that the mailing list is a much better place for tracking development. IRC is too instantaneous (time zones preclude participation often), and IRC logs are extremely tedious and difficult to follow as they lack the structure that e-mail has. As a lurker who would like to follow gtk development, if the developers would return to the list I think it would be of great benefit to potential contributors like me (though maybe the potential is too small to even consider). Certainly as long as GTK development discussions primarily take place on IRC I will be unable to follow and even consider contributing in any way, even a tiny way. _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
