Re: Supporting Gtk+ Maintenance
On 3/15/07, Tim Janik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Companies (especially those on the advisory board) can submit names of developers (employees) who can be put on the task of Gtk+ maintenance. Ideally, the developers should already have experience with Gtk+ project contributions, and they should be team-oriented and communicative to be able to develop a good work relationship with the existing Gtk+ community. * The Gtk+ project would like to see those people work full time if possible, but regular part time assistance can also help a lot. Code maintainence is an important part of any project's life cycle is often the most dreaded part by developers. Majority of them think that adding new features is _the_ most exciting part of the project cycle. However, this phase is good ( very important) for the developers who are in the process of learning the toolkit's internals - like me. I would suggest that when the decision about hiring developers is made (or discussed), maintainence work should be strongly put forward... specially since we will decide to branch/develop for the 3.0 branch in future. I would be happy to volunteer towards maintainence of GTK+. Regards, Makuchaku http://www.makuchaku.info/blog ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Supporting Gtk+ Maintenance
quote who=Tim Janik So for the foundation board, there are two things that can be done to improve the current situation: 1) Please present the issue at hand (this email and the email linked to above) to the advisory board members, to make sure the companies involved are aware of the situation. And if possible, spread the word to other involved parties or (non advisory) companies. Your timing is fantastic -- we're having an Advisory Board meeting tomorrow morning. I will bring it up then. :-) 2) Please investigate if the hiring/sponsoring of a full time Gtk+ maintainer position by the Gnome foundation is also a possibility. Current and previous boards have been very cautious about the idea of hiring developers. We'd prefer to hire people who can support the work of hackers. That's not to say it's completely off the table, but there's more we can do with contributing companies beforehand. Just for the record, I'm taking this issue very seriously. It's one of the reasons I brought up GTK+ collaboration with the GNOME Foundation (and the other project mentioned during the GTK+ meeting at GUADEC). Thanks, - Jeff -- Open CeBIT 2007: Sydney, Australia http://www.opencebit.com.au/ Blessed are the cracked, for they let in the light. - Spike Milligan ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Supporting Gtk+ Maintenance
On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 09:19 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: So for the foundation board, there are two things that can be done to improve the current situation: 1) Please present the issue at hand (this email and the email linked to above) to the advisory board members, to make sure the companies involved are aware of the situation. And if possible, spread the word to other involved parties or (non advisory) companies. Your timing is fantastic -- we're having an Advisory Board meeting tomorrow morning. I will bring it up then. :-) Indeed. This has been in my agenda for tomorrow's meeting, and I'm taking notes about it right now. -- behdad http://behdad.org/ Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
