Hello all, I may become typical to repeat my self over and over, and those proposals are already declined, but since I do a little bit care I will become a little bit typical ;)
1) Move to Github. More advertisement, easy to watch the changes, obvious advantages. A notice here, BGO has poor communication outside of GNOME developers, in comparison with smaller projects in Github. 2) Change release cycle schedule on applications. I don't believe that people are very excited to contribute on something and wait for 6 months to see it "live" coz of UI freeze policy. It's bad for users and for development in general too. 3) Have more acceptance. I know you may don't want some "features", but it is better than having an under-development module. Plus these contributors are likely to work on other things as well. My point is that maintainers should might give a bit more freedom to contributors. Talking about the under maintained modules -at least. Another notice here, is that I believe very much to "ownership", as the only model for people to really care for anything. Like the communism vs capitalist model, You know what I mean, right? 4) More importantly have clear roadmaps with what features you want in each application. 5) Use socials and promote the things you're working at! 6) I would say about the poor documentation and how to start with Gnome development, but you're already working on these, although might a bit slow :) And by the way as a Gnome user, my biggest complain from GNOME is the lack of Gnome Cloud accounts to sync our settings, GOA, etc on new installations. And probably that requires a GNOME OS which is my second biggest complain ;) I wish you well! - alex On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 12:37 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Matthias Clasen > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Some of the others are unfortunately stalled or stagnant. In some > > cases, maintainers are lacking and patches are rotting in bugzilla. In > > other cases, we just don't have experienced enough developers around > > to lift the apps 'over the threshold' of usefulness. > > > > We really need to be fixating on increasing our developer pool. I > feel like that we've been relying on our paid developers to do all the > heavy lifting. > > I also feel we should be spending an entire cycle not only on what > Allan is talking about, but also lowering the bar on getting apps. > For instance, glade still has a number of outstanding patches that > have not been reviewed which makes it difficult to play around with UI > for at least newcomers. > > sri > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team > Release-team lurker? Do NOT participate in discussions. >
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