Re: [gnome-love] New GnomeGoal

[Luis Menina <liberforce fr st>]

David Farning a écrit :
> On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 02:31 +0200, Luis Menina wrote:
> > Well, first of all, thanks for your contribution to the AppIcon goal, 
> > David !
>
> You are a welcome.  I think I have gone as far as I can with the
> AppIcons goal for now.  Most of the remaining modules have something
> more involved that will probably require discussion.

Yeah. That's why also I removed your colored goal status: it's very 
dificult to complete a goal in its reserved timeframe. But unachieved 
goals can become a good playground for future newcommers. Instructions 
are still there, and looking at the patches other people sent will make 
it easier. For now, the more important is to keep the goals running at a 
steady pace.

> > So for those who have read this long email, which one do you prefer, so 
> > we can improve it a bit, before turning it an official goal ?
>
> The AboutDialog goal would be another good goal for me personally.

That's what I think too. Moreover, migration to GTK 2.10 can give great 
GNOME Goals. I did for Ekiga the GnomeAbout -> GtkAboutDialog and the 
EggStatusIcon -> GtkStatusIcon which give some clearly defined goals. It 
helps to give some desktop-wide consistency, and removes the need for 
copied/pasted implementations of these (which lowers the memory footprint).

So, unless someone disagrees, the next goal will be:
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/AboutDialog

I will in a day or two send a mail to announce this new goal.

Vuntz, could you please tell me if it's acceptable practice to cross 
post desktop-devel-list to announce the new GNOME Goal, or some other 
mailing list I may not be aware of ? I only saw two contributors on the 
last one (David and Brian), so we need to communicate better about this, 
and improve our visibility. If someone aggregated on planet.gnome.org 
could forward the announce when it's done, it would be great too.

> Luis, It would be pretty handy to either include point of contact link
> for either you or gnome-love on the gnome goals page.  The biggest
> problem I have had (besides the fact that all the jhbuild documentation
> still points to cvs) getting involved with gnome is figuring out the
> right place to ask questions. 

Damned jhbuild doc... I stated to put some in the wiki, but didn't put 
it in public space:
http://live.gnome.org/LuisMenina/JhbuildGuide

But it's good you pointed out that were're lacking contact information 
for GNOME Goals. I've added it right now.

> No offense taken on removing the distcheck goal.  As I started looking
> into it further it stated getting harder and harder.
>
> Thanks
> David Farning

Thanks for your help and your great comments, we just need motivated 
people like you to keep some good stuff happening!