Re: Where can I find detailed extension API changes of gnome-shell

[Vadim <vadim dbfin com>]

Matthias,

I did not intend to imply anything about others of the team. And I might 
have forgotten what his role was officially named. Regardless,

the truth is that regarding extensions, he was the only de facto 
responsible and responsive on that matter. And as far as I know, the 
website extensions.gnome.org was developed and maintained by him as well.

He is also a significant part of the team, as you confirmed, and the 
only part of the team in connection to the extensions and website. He 
was (and is?) also a decisive part in that process, at least in most 
questions. So, yes, when he says something like that, it means 
something. It is not the words of someone random, who got just tired of 
reviewing extensions, as was implied in another email. He actually did 
not review them at the time.

And given that, as I said, by the time I had already tried numerous 
times to help with extensions as much I could, and had not get any reply 
from anyone, I interpreted and keep interpreting his words as a tendency 
existed at least one year ago.

So my words should be interpreted this way, not as to diminish the role 
of value of others of the GS team, especially with respect to other 
sides of the software. That being said, mentioning his other 
contributions is irrelevant, as I never said anything bad personally, or 
regarding someone's contributions, or regarding the GS itself. And I 
know more about his contributions than you might assume. But we talk 
specifically about extension development here.

Again, I have not seen any developments regarding extensions, API or 
website in the past year or so (not because there are no, but because I 
just did not use GS). So, I just hope that it is moving somewhere now. 
Who knows, I might one day get back to GS, when I get tired of something 
else.

Vadim.


On 05/14/2015 07:13 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 6:55 PM, Vadim <vadim dbfin com> wrote:
> > No, that was the message from the lead maintainer and developer of GS, who
> > actually decides what is important for GS, and who, BTW, created the site
> > extensions.gnome.org. He also never reviewed extensions himself, unless for
> > very early versions. So that was a message from the GS team, not from
> > someone who got tired of reviewing extensions. And, by the way, one of the
> > emails asking if they need help with reviewing extensions, I sent to him.
> That was a message from Jasper, who's contributions to gnome-shell are
> hard to overlook and are very valuable. But he is not the lead
> maintainer of gnome-shell, nor does he speak for the gnome-shell
> development team. People (myself included) will say many things, and
> we all have our own opinions.