Re: [Builder] Needed information about GNOME Builder

[Christian Hergert <christian hergert me>]

On 02/19/2016 08:11 PM, Diogo Campos wrote:
> I'm building a Free Software crowdfunding campaign, and GNOME Builder is
> one of the candidates to be benefited.

Cool!

> This would mean for GNOME Builder to have 1 additional person working
> on it, and full-time. So, I would like to know from maintainers,
> contributors and interested individuals some information about GNOME
> Builder.
>
> - There is interest in this additional person?

Always.

> - What are the functions needed today? Development? UI Design? Bug
> triage? Documentation? Translation? Anything else?

We have a lot to do. We could use someone doing UX research and helping
us define our future. We could use someone writing help documentation on
our existing features and as we write new ones. We could use someone to
help us implement features on our roadmap, etc.

> - What tasks such contributors can do? And what is the skill level
> required to perform each of these tasks? Student? Amateur? Intermediate?
> Advanced? Expert?

Working on the core features of Builder (ie: things in libide) really do
require advanced to expert level for new features. Fixing existing bugs
in the code base, not so much.

> - What are the programming languages used?

For working on the core project, proficiency in C is expected. Some
things can be done in Python or Vala. Especially as we push our plugin
story forward.

> - There is a Roadmap and/or TODO list? If yes, what they define?

This is our workspace for 3.22 planning:

  https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Builder/Roadmap

General features we want to see implemented:

  https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Builder/Features

> - What is the current health of the project? How many people work on it
> regularly? How many of these are paid to do it?

One full-time engineer paid to work on Builder. About 5 regular
contributors, and about 20 contributing to code on any given release.

Cheers,

-- Christian