On Wed, 2018-12-05 at 00:52 +0100, Thomas HARDING wrote:
Hi! Le 04/12/2018 à 23:24, Alexander Brown a écrit :Hello! I've been interested in seeing Dia move forward for sometime now and I'm glad others are as well I don't want to step on anyone's toes but as the current maintainers are unaccounted for I'm volunteering as acting-maintainer (I have commit access). I've already reached out to Thomas directly asking themhaving "commit access" makes you as a god on this mailing list, even if not solving QA process (bug reports/patches managment).to submit some of their patches as MRs to(unsure whose Thomas it is (Popisek ?))
Sorry, yes Thomas = Tomas Pospisek
Whilst I am a member of the GNOME Foundation and would like to see Dia modernised I recognise the fact Dia is very much a cross platform application and therefore has a sort of 'special status' within the GNOME Project and have no intention of breaking KDE/macOS/Windows compatibility That said I would like to see Dia move to modern APIs like Cairo & Gtk3 (or 4) and ideally be built with meson to allow for easier development and ensure we are not dropped by distributions (I'm new to mailing lists so constructive feedback is welcome)Greetings! At least one offered to be maintainer in the past two weeks,
I believe that was Tomas, there is a slight unwillingness to "give him the keys" as (from GNOME's perspective) they are fairly unknown. Should they become a member i am happy to come to some sort co-maintainer relationship (in fact I'd welcome it as i don't have as much time for Dia as i would like)
One key point is effectively "Gnome integration", which must not be turned too strong (dependancies has to be optionals, especially loosed functionalities from one to other would never impair usage, or be replaced "from start" by design). Sometimes portability is a high price /at first/, but finally /you gain/ (and, most important, user gains) :-).
Whilst I would like to get some people from the GNOME Design Team to give us some mockups for reworking various dialogs I have no intention to redesign the whole UI with HeaderBars or anything like that
That said, "anything you can give will help". I think something new for years is that most of writers on list talks now about what they want to DO, so we can expect for rants and argues for a few days as a /normal process/. That's a good signal for Dia. (I'm retired) Regards, Tsfh _______________________________________________ dia-list mailing list dia-list gnome org https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmail.gnome.org%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fdia-list&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cc19b5385dde8420b97ba08d65a44096a%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636795645592714494&sdata=vgjDMZTizWUCnYbKiZ%2FrUthDafW8R87Qt10i5WCC430%3D&reserved=0 FAQ at https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flive.gnome.org%2FDia%2FFaq&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cc19b5385dde8420b97ba08d65a44096a%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636795645592714494&sdata=SAxujcH82GTtqCQ5vOAZWL7BuM9SKswcGcfu8yleIT8%3D&reserved=0 Main page at https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flive.gnome.org%2FDia&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cc19b5385dde8420b97ba08d65a44096a%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636795645592714494&sdata=1FDycoAGXoI6uR6sGG2Mtk%2FUNRdC23QznlnoSOunmrs%3D&reserved=0
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