Frederic Peters <fpet...@gnome.org> wrote: ... >> 4) A "GNOME apps" hackfest. >> >> 5) A "GNOME apps" online sprint - come up with a list of bugs and get >> designs in place. Advertise for volunteers and have people ready to >> review bugs. > > I have experimented a bit today[1] and I'd like to add a middle ground > to this, with a kind of distributed small scale hackfests, say we'd > have a few cities at first, where around 5 persons would meet for a > day, and each gathering would focus on a single application. > > This could get contributors from other modules to give energy to new > applications, bring new persons to development and give the necessary > shot to the new (or old) apps. > > Of course I'd volunteer for Brussels or Paris (where we have good > relations with persons at the Mozilla offices). > > This can be so low key I could just organize it by myself but we can > probably get more interest and people if we coordinate and advertise > this globally at first.
Small hackfests sound great, Fred. My view is that we should focus on key applications where more progress/activity is desirable. Leaving aside the question of Empathy, my priorities would be Music, Notes, Photos and Videos, since these are basic, essential apps, where it would be nice to see more development activity. I've spoken to the maintainers of three of these applications, and they are all enthusiastic about participating in an effort to encourage contributions. I think that agreeing on roadmaps for each app would be a really good first step, since it will help contributors to know what needs work. That's something that I can try and facilitate; Jakub or myself could also create some shiny new mockups so people can get a sense of what we're aiming for. Once we have roadmaps, I'm thinking that an online sprint might be the best way to move forward (this could possibly be combined with hackfests, either at the same time or later). New contributors might not be able to attend a hackfest, but could participate in an online event. I think that it would be really good to get the Engagement Team involved in helping to promote these initiatives, so that we reach a wide audience. Allan _______________________________________________ release-team@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team Release-team lurker? Do NOT participate in discussions.
