Re: GNOME Contributor's Survey

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

Hellow hackeurs-

Seņor[1] Blandford and I just finished editing/collating the first batch
of 18 surveys, which were great, and hope to get those results public
'soon'. We'd still love to hear from many of you, though- several
maintainers [captain camp, Rob Adams, George, etc.] have ducked the call
so far ;) and we'd also still love to hear from others who are working
on the platform who feel that they have interesting feedback to give on
where GNOME is going or should be going, even if they only dream of
becoming maintainers, or even if they are avoiding maintainership like
the plague.

This will be going to the board[2] (yay) and eventually to the advisory
board (more yay- they really want to know where we are headed) as well
as just giving the general community a real sense of where we stand and
where we're headed[3], so the more good feedback we get the better.
Again, no need that it be perfect- ballpark is good :) 

Buenas Noches-
Luis

[1] HOORAY GUCHARMAP
[2] Jeff Waugh is Always Right. I have this tattooed on my forehead now.
[3] We don't need roads, so.... ;)

On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 14:53, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> It's time for the very first GNOME Contributor's survey.  The purpose of
> this survey is to help the release team get a good feel of where you
> expect GNOME to go.  If you maintain or help with any code or project in
> GNOME, please fill it out.  We're hoping to hear from everyone who helps
> shape the GNOME desktop and platform.  We want as many contributors to
> reply here as possible.
> 
> The release team will then distill the results of this survey into a
> road map of where the whole project is headed.  It should help us know
> what to expect in the future, know what issues to avoid down the road,
> and identify parts of GNOME that need recruiting people to work on.  It
> should also help us all get on the same page.
> 
> We know that most of us work on GNOME for fun, so if you say something
> now and then decide later that it just isn't going to happen, we won't
> hold it against you at all.  But please do try to be realistic.
> 
> THE SURVEY:
> 
> 0) What part of GNOME do you work on?  Which module do you maintain or
>    contribute to?
> 
> 1) What features are you planning on adding to your module for 2.6?a
> 
> 2) Which features do you expect to get done for 2.8 or later?
> 
> 3) In the long run, where do you see your project going.  What's the
>    long term vision for it?  What problems do you hope to solve?
> 
> 4) What features do you need from the rest of GNOME to achieve your
>    vision?  What features would you like to see the core library stack
>    develop?
> 
> 5) (Optional demographic question) How long have you been working on
>    GNOME
> 
> Please send your answers to maintainers-survey gnome org   We will keep
> all comments private unless you explicitly give permission to quote
> them.  If you have any questions about the questions, or as to what the
> point of the survey is, mail release-team gnome org   
> 
> Thanks,
> -Jonathan (for the release team)
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