Re: Candidacy: Seif Lotfy

[Seif Lotfy <seif lotfy com>]

On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Johannes Schmid <jhs jsschmid de> wrote:

Hi!

>  I will just be frank here...
> • Translation shifting from upstream to downstream ?
> • Development infrastructure limiting upstream contribution.
> • Canonical's Unity development, what does it mean for GNOME ?
> • Red Hat's control over GNOME Shell ?
> • Meego being a competition or a GNOME sister project ?
> • Smaller companies involvement into GNOME decisions
> • How much of GNOME is community driven and how much is company driven
> • Is the GNOME community forced to assimilate with decisions made by
> those companies?
> • More...

OK, you were asked to list them. Anyway, why do you think there are
true?

* From my point of view as part of the gtp coordination team I think
translations are not shifting downstream, we rather solved most of these
problems and have high-quality upstream translations.

AFAIK there  are quite a few standing issues with GNOME arabic support.

http://wiki.arabeyes.org/Gnome
http://wiki.arabeyes.org/%D8%AC%D9%86%D9%88%D9%85
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=420964

These are slightly out of date though. 

* Why do you think our infrastructure is limiting?

The development happening on Launchpad (not bazaar) really beats what GNOME provides in several aspects, starting bug management, blueprinting and linking with branches. There are a lot of nice projects there that are not part of GNOME because of the GNOME Infrastructure: GNOME Do, Docky, Getting Things GNOME... These projects are in their own rights very successful and used by the community. And by allowing them to deploy per default with GNOME would just benefit the GNOME community...

The Project leads don't care since they are being deployed downstream now which is more or less skipping the middle man which is GNOME, who seem to be conservative in some of these aspects.

I am not saying we should switch to Lauchpad or so. But we need to study and make an effort into compromising. Having major projects work downstream will kill GNOME, and pointing fingers will not help.

* For the company statements IMHO despite I don't know anything about
the Unity plans I think those arent' true. Could you explain?

I am not saying its true but sooner or later RH will want to deploy GNOME Shell on the netbooks just like Unity will at some point put an eye on the desktop... Its naive to asssume both will not try to assume positions in the netbook and desktop market...

 

Thanks,
Johannes

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