Re: Nautilus directions and plans...

[Jaap Haitsma <jaap haitsma org>]

Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
> Is there anything as a roadmap/.plan for Nautilus? It seems to me that
> there are lots of small undirected development efforts that never really
> catch on, going on in the would-be contributor world. With more guidance
> these efforts might start converging into something bigger.
>
> "Look in Bugzilla" would be the fast answer to this, but people (like
> me) who are not 100% adapt walking the GNOME jungle, easily spend
> countless hours browsing the lists, never knowing what is a small fix,
> and what requires major intervention (what is important, and do the
> maintainers even want this fixed?). Thus losing motivation pretty
> quickly.
>
> If 5-10 ten bugs where singled out by the maintainer team and a handful
> of features/changes/enhancements/ideas also concocted by the maintainers
> (perhaps with input from other GNOME projects) together with a long-term
> goal, where maintained somewhere, it might catalyst the hacking desires
> of would-be contributors.
>
> To make sure people where not looking at deprecated version of this file
> it might only live in CVS or on the Nautilus homepage.
>
> Actually the above applies to any of the bigger GNOME components.

I think it would be ideal to list the bugs Mikkel is talking about on 
the gnome wiki i.e. live.gnome.org

GtkFileChooser has already something like that
http://live.gnome.org/GtkFileChooser?action=highlight&value=gtkfilechooser

Jaap