Re: GTK+ maintenance

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Hi,

Vincent Untz wrote:
> For example, a lot of companies do have an interest in GTK+ but are not
> actively participating upstream. I've been in contact with some of them
> to see if they could get some of their developers to freely work on
> upstream as part of their job. People have been open about this idea,
> but I'm sure we could come with better arguments to really convince
> them.

Two good angles might be:
 - bugzilla stats (number of bugs, response time to new bugs, etc.)
 - details on specific great new features / enhancements a maintainer
   could implement (and point out how these benefit the company in
   question's products, as well as the whole ecosystem)

Havoc