Re: Panel for next LWCE in New York...

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com>]

Mark Galassi <rosalia@galassi.org> writes:

>     Maciej> Actually, this list lacks any hackers with no
>     Maciej> GNOME-related corporate affiliation, for that angle,
>     Maciej> perhaps the top people would be James Henstridge, Raph
>     Maciej> Levien or Dan Mueth (not currently a GNOME hacker, but
>     Maciej> head of th GDP).
> 
> A good idea: Dan does great stuff, and we need to encourage people to
> think that each line of docs is as valueable as a line of C code.
> 
>     Maciej> Since Sun is planning to make the biggest new
>     Maciej> contributions here, it might also be good to have someone
>     Maciej> from Sun, either John Heard or Marco Buerros probably.
> 
> Shall we make this contingent upon Sun's code showing up in the GNOME
> CVS?  I'm delighted by Sun's future contributions, and they should be
> encouraged, but if anyone else said "dudes, I'm going to contribute
> code to GNOME in the future", we should probably say "cool: we'll put
> you on gnome-hackers as soon as you are ready to make your first CVS
> commit."
> 
> Has any of Sun's code showed up in CVS yet?

They do have people starting to actively engage the community to work
on specific projects now.

 - Maciej