Re: GTK+ maintenance

[Xavier Bestel <xavier bestel free fr>]

On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 09:06 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote:
> > 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?

I think that's what he says: hiring GTK+ hackers by the board => bad,
but hiring GTK+ hackers by companies => good.

	Xav