Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-gnome (92 mails)

[Magnus Boman <captain.magnus@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 22:57 +0000, Andrew Wafaa wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 18:33 +0530, Atri Bhattacharya wrote:
> > In my opinion the GNOME Community (or any of the smaller teams, e.g. KDE
> > Community) needs a leader/community coordinator (with good knowledge of
> > GNOME and involved in upstream efforts as well) who will organise and
> > channelise community efforts. Such a person could try and formulate
> > short term plans, publicise them from time to time and seek the help of
> > the community to get these done. At the moment I think there is good
> > direction with the GNOME team (and the releases are excellent) but
> > plans, both short term and long term are not publicised enough (or
> > perhaps they are and I have just missed them, if so apologies!).
>
> Well I think we are in a very good position with providing upstream
> resources.  As it happens the GNOME team have a great person in the one
> and only Vintcent Untz.  One issue that we have is that because Vincent
> does such a good job he is in *huge* demand not just by openSUSE (where
> he works in the GNOME team but also in the Boosters) but also by
> upstream GNOME.  He has managed to get some items covered by others, but
> he only has so much time before he falls over with fatigue - and we do
> *not* want vuntz to burn out!

I just need to add that Dominique Leuenberger is pulling a lot of weight
as well. Once cloning humans are legal, both Vincent and Dominique
should be cloned several times over.

Cheers,
Magnus


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