On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 12:08 +0000, Andrew Wafaa wrote:
Overall, I think that our Paid Developers are interacting much less now than what happened a year ago, which I think is bad.
I beg to differ, I also feel that a lot of our Un-Paid Developers are interacting less now (me included).
And where do we disagree? :-) I do agree about the volunteers as well. Not really sure why I only pointed the finger to the paid GNOMEies :-/
When the development for 11.0 started is when I think the GNOME channel was at its best; we had bugs being filed left right and centre, bugs being fixed at a rate of knots, Paid and Un-Paid people joining the fray and generally the GNOME channel was a hive of fun and activity.
Sure was.
So why has it all changed? No it has nothing to do with Obama winning the election, but more I feel one of business constraints. The schedule for 11.1 was nuts and I think many people agree, on top of 11.1 we also have SLE11 which is taking up a lot of people's time. Once these are out of the way I hope we can get the great banter back, and also get the level of participation we once had back up there.
I'm not convinced about the reasons why it changed. I think that we need someone that drives the stuff that we want and need to do. There are many things that fall between the chair way to often (meeting minutes that are not wikified, discussions that never come to a conclusion etc) In short, I feel that we don't have a strong leadership.
Back to the subject of the Meting on Thursday, I think the look back and doing a lessons learnt type round table is a good idea. As long as people are honest about their thoughts, and don't take too much offence.
I would like to think/hope that none of us take this personal. Cheers, Magnus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org