Dave, thank you for the answer. I now subscribed to the mobile-devel-list and also found the relevant threads in the archives. I'll read through all of it and then decide what to do.
Thanks! Conny On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 22:40 +0200, [email protected] wrote: > Hi Conny, > > ----- "Cornelius Hald" <[email protected]> a écrit : > > > On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 16:22 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: > > > Also, as I think Quim knows, there are no GTK+ developers on that > > list - > > > to reach them, if that was his goal, he would have needed to post > > to > > > [email protected] > > > > I didn't really understand that part ;) Where is/should be the > > discussion? On gtk-devel-list or mobile-devel-list? Shouldn't the > > developers be part of that decision process? At the moment it looks > > to > > me that there is some money, but no one willing/able to do the work. > > Where is this discussion that happened for a couple of weeks? > > OK - let me elaborate: > > mobile-devel-list is a place which was supposed to be about developing with > the GNOME platform on mobile environments. So lots of people interested in > integrating GNOME libraries and encouraging third party development, and > third party developers, went along there. We never *really* succeeded in > gathering a critical mass of developers from the core modules - some of them > are represented, and there are certainly GTK+ maintainers on the list, but I > would say that the hard-core of GTK+ developers didn't really think of > themselves as mobile developers, and thus didn't sign up to mobile-devel-list. > > For 3rd party developers, it's a great place to go to suggest ideas for ways > that the GNOME Foundation might spend €50,000 on mobile. > > However, if you want to talk directly to the GTK+ maintainers, then > gtk-devel-list is the place to go. > > > Is there anything a simple application developer can do? I'm just > > asking > > before I put useless energy into this. > > Certainly! mobile-devel-list is a great place to suggest the things which > would help you, as a simple application developer, continue to develop & > maintain your application. > > > Again, where exactly is upstream? > > And again, that depends. For GTK+, it's gtk-devel-list. For GNOME in general, > probably desktop-devel-list or mobile-devel-list are the best places to go. > > > By reading the other mails from Kimmo and Javier, there are some > > issues, > > but they are already quite well know. Javier will work on the input > > methods which is great. To me it sound like having another 3 or 4 > > GSoC-like projects should be enough to get initial work done. 50.000 > > would be enough for that. > > My question on mobile-devel-list was about what concrete results you're > aiming for, and whether the effort you put in will obtain them. > > If you're aiming to make GNOME a more attractive mobile development platform, > then I suspect that investing money in developer tools and documentation > might be more useful. If you think the platform's in OK shape and want to get > more high quality mobile apps, then a developer contest or summer of code (I > prefer contest myself) might be good investments. > > It all depends what you see as the problems and the desired results. > > Cheers, > Dave. > _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
