Re: About The GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initative

[Gezim Hoxha <gezimetc shaw ca>]

On Mon, 2007-23-04 at 15:59 +0300, Peteris Krisjanis wrote:
> In a nutshell, looking from long time GNOME user POV, marketing team
> for GNOME project is essential, but real results are needed to gain
> any respect/response:
> 
> * Release notes - already lot of people complaining on lot of sites -
> slashdot.org, osnews.com - about lack of quality in last release
> notes. Previously It was done better, I think we must get back on
> track with this;

Yeah, it's obvious, a lot of people are complaining. However, it appears
to me that there was not much done regarding development. I just
installed Ubuntu 7.04 and honestly I can't see one thing that's
different or better in gnome (except disk usage analyzer, but I don't
know whether ubuntu team deserves credit here or who).

> * Developer resources - aka library.gnome.org - again, it is already
> in various people todo lists and job for marketing team here would be
> keep everyone in touch and if there is need for resources, then trying
> to organize them;

This is absolutely critical, in my opinion. The developers.gnome.org is
a joke (as someone mentioned). How do we expect developers to start
developing for gnome when we are not helping them? 

> 
> * About mobile initiative - I don't get harsh words flying around
> about this, because it is so exciting thing, on which marketing team
> should jump on ASAP; I understand disappointment about lack of
> communication, but I guess we must get over it this time and see how
> we can coordinate such scenarios without public exposure (due of legal
> entities; we won't change corporation's way of thinking that
> everything must be kept secret) in the future;

I completely agree. This is really exciting and this just adds to the
need for a developers help page.

BTW, nice job on the http://www.gnome.org/mobile/ page. I love the
diagram :D

-Gezim