Re: GNOME stock administration tools.

[Frederic Muller <fredm gnome org>]

Dear Sivan,

The Hackfest is only for current members of the GNOME release and
marketing team, so it's invitation only. However people from the 
community can put forth proposals about what they could work on or how 
they could contribute at the hackfest as long as it's focusing on the 
GNOME 3 launch.

In your case I would suggest to start talking with people involved in 
GNOME 3.0. Your questions are beyond our scope, and GNOME 3.0 has made 
some efforts towards centralization of configuration and system tools I 
believe (don't take my word for it though).

I would recommend that you visit the #gnome3 or #gnome-hackers IRC 
channels or email gnome-devel-list 
(http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-devel-list) with your 
questions.

Rewriting something from the ground up might be started way before the 
hackfest, the hackfest being here to fine tune, test and collaborate 
with others toward the product launch.

Regardless of what I just wrote if you get support from people involved 
in the GNOME 3.0 launch I suggest that you put up a proposal with the 
people supporting your work as a reference and we'll happily review your 
application.

I hope I gave you enough indicators to move your ideas forward. Please 
do not hesitate to get back to us if you need more hints.

Kind regards,

Fred Muller

On 01/24/2011 09:04 AM, Sivan Greenberg wrote:
> Hi Summit List,
>
>   My name is Sivan Greenberg. A long time gnome contributor and
> integrator for Ubuntu.
>
>   I once used to work on gnome-system-tools:
> http://gnome-system-tools.sourcearchive.com/documentation/2.27.1/privileges-table_8c-source.html
>
> I am wondering if there is room to re establish the GNOME upstream
> system tools, but with a re-design from the ground up and implementing
> it all in Python? What is the modern choice for developing Python /
> GTK apps today? Is it still SimpleGladeApp + PyGTK?
>
> My PyGTK experience:
> https://code.launchpad.net/~sivan/hubackup/hubackup--main
>
> If this is interesting, I might be able (given travel and
> accommodation sponsorship) to attend and work on this burning issues
> in GNOME in my opinion.
>
> Best,
>
>
> -Sivan
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