Re: Future of GNOME: Semantics

[Olav Vitters <olav bkor dhs org>]

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 11:59:39PM +0200, Anders Feder wrote:
> man, 16 06 2008 kl. 22:37 +0200, skrev Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen:
> > So the bottom line is - you need to do a heck of a lot of heavy
> > lifting and boring work for things to take off - and that over a very
> > long period of time. This is my experience from Xesam atleast. Posting
> > here is good, but don't expect ten people to join your band wagon just
> > like that :-)
> 
> Michael Gratton has already proposed a next step for this project and
> even volunteered to possibly help out with some of it, so I think this
> path is quite productive. I really don't see what should keep people
> from joining up if they find the idea worthwhile.

People who do stuff don't generally join because of an interesting idea.
More when there is something to play with (code, examples). It is not
about removing restrictions, but more about getting contributors.

e.g. I have lots of stuff I'd like to work on. But don't always feel
like it, lack of time, etc (this while I just do scripting stuff).

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Regards,
Olav