I would like to correct something here. Zeitgeist is not a file browser and has no UI anymore. It is just a History storage for the user. What you are talking about is the Activity Journal, which is now not needed and thus dead.
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Dave Neary <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry I couldn't attend - a sick son & bedtime meant that 8pm yesterday was > rush hour in the Neary household. > > > On 12/14/2012 03:24 PM, Emily Gonyer wrote: >> >> Sri: Theres a common wisdom that GNOME will throw out features and are >> unfriendly. We've let others tell our story for us. As a result, most >> of the press we receive is negative, focusing on GNOME 3's failures >> and shortcomings. >> >> Andreas: Whats the biggest drawback of this perception? > > > I would say that the biggest draw-back of this perception is that we are not > growing as a developer community, because we're seen as a conservative > project where code is as likely to be rejected as accepted once the work is > done, it's not clear how to get pre-approval before developing something > that it'll be accepted. > > We have also had a couple of examples of new applications being built which > compete with existing apps, and the process for choosing has been unclear - > Photos & Shotwell comes to mind, as do Files and Zeitgeist. I think this is > also hurting the GNOME ISV community (such as it is). > > In addition, the reputation of GNOME as a conservative project is worse in > the platform, with the result that we have few developers working on the > foundations of the project at this point. > > I don't have any good answers to how to turn this around, but it seems to me > that these are the biggest costs of the reputation - because if we don't > figure out how to grow our developer community, the rest doesn't matter. > > Cheers, > Dave. > > -- > Dave Neary, Lyon, France > Email: [email protected] > Jabber: [email protected] > > -- > marketing-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- marketing-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
