Re: [draft] Planning for GNOME 3.0

[Luis Villa <luis tieguy org>]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Lucas Rocha <lucasr gnome org> wrote:
> Hence, it makes perfect sense to rework our platform and try to
> clarify it for newcomers. Here are some steps that should be
> considered:
>
>  - move all of the deprecated libraries out of the platform, so people
> stop using them in new code;
>  - create a staging area in the platform for libraries that aim to be
> in our platform but do not offer enough guarantees at the moment (like
> GStreamer): this will send a clear message on what should be used;
>  - rework the way we present the platform to also integrate some of
> the external dependencies: while, say, D-Bus or Avahi are external
> dependencies, they are definitely what we want developers to use. And
> it's easy to be more explicit about this.
>  - move the bindings closer to the platform when we talk about
> bindings, to make them even more visible and attract developers from
> all languages.
>
> COMMENT: As noted by Luis, I think we should add a more exciting note
> here: "welcome platform additions that allows GNOME to improve its
> user experience and easily integrate with online services such as
> location-awareness, 3d animations, web services integration, etc.".

To clarify, I only want it added if it is actually going to happen. :)

>  - Desktop Testing: with the recent creation of the Desktop Testing
> Team, this topic becomes more and more visible. We can innovate there,
> and we actually should: we helped show the way in the free software
> world when it comes to usability and accessibility, and there is no
> reason for us not aiming at a similar experience for desktop testing.

I forgot to mention earlier that this is *huge* and very exciting.
Someone from that team should be on release team and reporting
regularly on progress.

> COMMENT: I'd add here "Online Services and Location awareness" as
> potential areas.

Again, I think this announce has more value if it sticks to things
that we know have resources committed to actually making them happen.
(which may included these categories? dunno.)

Luis