Le mardi 20 mai 2014 à 11:56 -0700, Andy Tai a écrit :
> What are your views on the participation of the people of these > projects, as stake holders in the direction of gtk+, in the GNOME > Foundation? Should the GNOME Foundation encourage (reach out to) > these people to get them involved in the GNOME Foundation so they also > have a say and even contribute to gtk+ so gtk+ can continue to serve > their needs well, important for the continuing successes of gtk+ in > the free software world? > I am unaware of the GTK+ project actively discouraging* participation, and I'm not sure that downstreams are "choosing not to fix GTK+ because they specifically don't want to" - rather, they're undermanned just the same, and busy enough with their own amount of bugs (just look at how long release cycles are for apps like GIMP, Inkscape, PTV...). It is not a problem easily fixed by marketing/outreach (and I say this from experience as the PTV marketing machine!). I think anyone will agree that GTK+ needs help, but whether or not that happens is a technical matter, heavily dependent on available skilled manpower. GTK+ is, as far as I know, an open meritocracy like any other respectable Free Software project and I'm pretty sure the maintainers are overjoyed when potential new contributors show up, which I suspect is a very rare occurrence. The way I see it (with my downstream/community hat on), GTK+ is a big/complex codebase, with an overloaded infrastructure (in this case, the bug tracker) leading to an unclear course of action, lagging community interaction, somewhat foggy roadmap and maintainers being in "survival mode", which is perfectly understandable given the circumstances. The "infrastructure" (or "process") side of things is something I'd like to help address (I touched upon the subject in one of my GUADEC 2013 talks), but it's really not going to happen overnight, especially as we are all volunteers. Related reading: the comments section of https://oli4444.wordpress.com/2014/03/22/engaging-developers/ *: I posit that it is simply a side-effect of all I've mentioned above, which makes it kind of a chicken-and-egg situation. _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list