Re: GTK+ maintenance

[Martyn Russell <martyn imendio com>]

Vincent Untz wrote:
> Hi,

Hi,

> Le mardi 15 mai 2007, à 16:53 -0400, Tristan Van Berkom a écrit :
>> Its been clearly stated that core maintainers are whats lacking, people
>> that can be trusted to review large patches, do refactoring work and
>> call shots so to speak, in my own personal opinion I think gtk+ could do
>> fine with 2 extra Mattias Clasens or 2 more Tim Janiks, the question is;
>> where are these experienced people to be found ?
> 
> Well, if they don't exist, we can try to grow some of them :-)
> 
>> Will the foundation be considering hiring people from the gnome
>> community ? (I would suppose so...) will there be location constraints 
>> (will developers have to move) ? will developers have to well known
>> and trusted or will they have to be highly decorated ? (a healty mix
>> of either/or/both I suppose...)
> 
> So, right now, the Board is not considering the option of hiring people
> to hack/do technical things. I'm not saying "we'll never do this", but
> doing this has a lot of implications (managing the employees wouldn't be
> easy, people could start thinking that there's no need to contribute to
> GTK+ since the GNOME Foundation has developers for this, etc.), and we'd
> prefer to explore other ways to fix the issue first.

I doubt that.

Imendio (among other companies) have slowly been putting more resources
into GTK+, is there any evidence that shows people are contributing any
less?

As far as managing people is concerned, perhaps what is needed is some
scheme where newly employed developers (by the board) are chaperoned by
someone experienced, for example, Tim or Matthias. If those which are
picked to work on GTK+ are sufficiently experienced already, the
resource impact on existing maintainers should be fairly low and reasonable.

-- 
Regards,
Martyn