reviewing gnome goals

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

Hey,

at the meeting, we agreed to take the gnome goals review to the list,
and pick a few ones that we want to 'adopt' for 3.6.
Here's my review:

There are marked as 'current' on the wiki:

GnomeGoals/AddGObjectIntrospectionSupport
GnomeGoals/GSettingsMigration
GnomeGoals/PythonIntrospectionPorting
GnomeGoals/XDGConfigFolders

And these are marked a s 'candidates':

GnomeGoals/AboutDialog
GnomeGoals/WikiMigration
GnomeGoals/DistCheck
GnomeGoals/UpdateInfoFiles
GnomeGoals/RemoveMarkupInMessages
GnomeGoals/UseTimeoutAddSeconds
GnomeGoals/NicerBuilds
GnomeGoals/AddCodeCoverage
GnomeGoals/ModernAutotools
GnomeGoals/ValidateGtkBuilderFiles
GnomeGoals/AppletsDbusMigration
GnomeGoals/CorrectIconNames
GnomeGoals/PortToGMenu
GnomeGoals/PortToGtkApplication

>From observing activity on the wiki, the currently 'active' goals are

GnomeGoals/GSettingsMigration
GnomeGoals/XDGConfigFolders
GnomeGoals/PortToGMenu
GnomeGoals/PortToGtkApplication

Some comments on the candidates:
GnomeGoals/AppletsDbusMigration - I don't think this is very relevant
anymore and should probably be retired

GnomeGoals/AboutDialog - probably not much left to do for this other
than busywork and turning all the fields green
GnomeGoals/CorrectIconNames - same for this

GnomeGoals/ModernAutotools - Some of the recommendations in there are
a bit controversial, but one thing we may want anyway is 'support
automake 1.12'
GnomeGoals/AddCodeCoverage - This seems premature - 'WriteTestSuites'
should come first

Some ideas for goals that might be useful:
Exterminate untranslated strings (see
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2012-May/msg00048.html)
Support Colins build api (see
http://people.gnome.org/~walters/docs/build-api.txt)


Here is my recommendation for goals to 'adopt':
GnomeGoals/GSettingsMigration
GnomeGoals/XDGConfigFolders - these 2 are actively being worked on,
and we should just push for completion instead of dragging it out

GnomeGoals/PortToGtkApplication
GnomeGoals/PortToGMenu - these 2 are important for making our app
story come together

GnomeGoals/RemoveMarkupInMessages - because it is nice to have some
goal that involves non-developers, and because it is easy, concrete
and useful