Fwd: GNOME Roadmap - Information Request for gok

["Lucas Rocha" <lucasr gnome org>]

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Bolter <david bolter utoronto ca>
Date: 25/04/2007 20:25
Subject: Re: GNOME Roadmap - Information Request for gok
To: Lucas Rocha <lucasr gnome org>
Cc: Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman sun com>


Hi Lucas,

Sorry for the late reply and for the brevity of this response. I'm swamped.

I'll answer inline:

Lucas Rocha wrote:
> Dear maintainer,
>
> GNOME 2.18 was released ~1 month ago, and we've all started to focus
> on the next development cycle. A new roadmapping process has been
> proposed[1] to know our short-term and long-term plans. The goal is to
> compose a GNOME-wide roadmap for the next stable releases. And we need
> your help to do this. It's important that you take a few minutes to
> reply to the following questions before May 7.
>
> ----
>
> - What are your plans for GNOME 2.20 (next 4 months, before feature and
> UI freezes)?
We need to sort out remaining hardware issues related to our recent use
of xevie.

> - What are your plans for GNOME 2.22 (next year)?

Possible migration to python.

> - Do you have plans for a future release?
Yup.
> - Do you have any goals from 2.18 that were not achieved? Why?
Yes. Basically stability and out of the box experience needs improvment.
Finding time for this work is the problem.
> - Is there something that is really missing in our infrastructure or
> platform that would help you?
Any improvements to development and build setup is always appreciated.
> - Do you have plans to work on other modules not maintained by you?
> What are they?
No. Not for lack of passion but for lack of time.
> - Do you have any GNOME-wide goals suggestions for the next releases?
I'd like to see the build system simplified so that we can attract more
developers.

> ----
>
> You can reply those questions in two ways: you can directly create a
> wiki page for your module's roadmap or you can just reply this
> message to roadmap-list gnome org 
>
> To create the wiki page, follow the instructions:
>
> 1. Create a wiki page under http://live.gnome.org/RoadMap/ModuleName,
> where "ModuleName" is a wiki word version of your module (i.e Gedit,
> LibGnome, GnomeVfs, etc). You can use this template for the wiki page
> initial content:
> http://live.gnome.org/RoadMap/ModuleTemplate
>
> 2. Add a link to the new page in http://live.gnome.org/RoadMap/Modules
> and set the status column to "Info" accordingly.
>
> ----
>
> You can keep track of the roadmapping process for your (and other)
> modules at:
> http://live.gnome.org/RoadMap/Modules
>
> For more information about the roadmap process, go to:
> http://live.gnome.org/RoadMap/Process
>
> For more information about our schedule, go to:
> http://live.gnome.org/Schedule
>
> Thanks for your contribution!
>
> The Roadmap Gang
>
> [1]
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/devel-announce-list/2007-March/msg00011.html

cheers,
David Bolter