Questions

["Robert Staudinger" <robert staudinger gmail com>]

Hello,

please candidates, be so kind to answer my questions below.

Thanks,
Rob

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The GNOME family is becoming bigger and bigger, with regard to
volunteers just as with regard to corporate interest. A healthy
balance between the not always converging interests of those two parts
of the community is important.

(i) Concerns can be heard throughout the community every now and then,
that the increasing corporate interest and investment makes it harder
and harder to contribute code for volunteers.
Q: What is your feeling about that?

[No need to continue further if you don't see any problem with the
current situation]

(ii) Are you interested in working on making it easier for people
willing to contribute code?

[No need to continue further if you don't plan to focus on that during
your time on the board]

(iii) What measures will you conduct to make contribution of code
easier for volunteers. (E.g. it can be rather frustrating having an
unreviewed patch in bugzilla for months.)

(iv) The GNOME Advisory has been formed to handle communication
between partys with commercial interest and the GNOME project.
Q: Do you think that a similar institution should be formed to handle
community feedback in an organised manner or will community
contributors have to communicate back using mailing lists and IRC as
it always was?