Re: Supporting Gtk+ Maintenance

["मयंक जैन (makuchaku)" <mayank gnu gmail com>]

On 3/15/07, Tim Janik <timj gtk org> wrote:
> * Companies (especially those on the advisory board) can submit names
>    of developers (employees) who can be put on the task of Gtk+
>    maintenance.
>    Ideally, the developers should already have experience with Gtk+
>    project contributions, and they should be team-oriented and
>    communicative to be able to develop a good work relationship with
>    the existing Gtk+ community.
>
> * The Gtk+ project would like to see those people work full time if
>    possible, but regular part time assistance can also help a lot.

Code maintainence  is an important part of any project's life cycle &
is often the most dreaded part by developers. Majority of them think
that adding new features is _the_ most exciting part of the project
cycle. However, this phase is good (& very important) for the
developers who are in the process of learning the toolkit's internals
- like me.

I would suggest that when the decision about hiring developers is made
(or discussed), maintainence work should be strongly put forward...
specially since we will decide to branch/develop for the 3.0 branch in
future.

I would be happy to volunteer towards maintainence of GTK+.

Regards,
Makuchaku
http://www.makuchaku.info/blog