Re: Fwd: Question for the canditates

[Pockey Lam <pockeylam gnome org>]

On 05/26/2011 01:49 AM, Andrea Veri wrote:
> I'd like to ask two questions of all the candidates please:
>
> 1) As GNOME has matured the number of officially supported language
> bindings has decreased. The quality and availability of various
> language communities own bindings has varied wildly to say the least.
> How would you work to improve this situation?
>
> 2) What are your own feelings on supporting fairly new languages and
> standards like Go and Perl 6?

Like other candidates and as previously stated in my answer to Frederic 
Peters I don't think the foundation role is to dictate technical 
choices, but to assist those willing to contribute to GNOME in their 
contributions, as long as it is inline with the direction of the project 
or as a R&D activity within GNOME.

In fact how would you see the foundation pushing for those? Having the 
board directors write the code themselves? Force someone from company X 
to do it? Pay a consultant to write "some code"?

Pushing for language support that no body is interested in (or has 
started to work on) would be an artificial push if no one join the 
effort.  However, if there is a demand and someone interested in working 
on it the board should definitely help to encourage more contributors to 
get involved and support the project.

I hope i have answered your questions.

Thanks.

Pockey


> Thank you all for considering my questions. Cheers, -Ali
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