Re: Project Proposal: GNOME Innovation - Resolution

[Paul Cutler <pcutler gnome org>]

Wolter, 

While I think this is an interesting idea, I don't thing your email below is necessarily the right way to approach this.

When you say "you" below - whom are you referring to?  GNOME is a distributed project with hundreds of volunteers all over the world.  What infrastructure would be used?  How would this be deployed?  Managed and maintained?  And most importantly, by whom?  The sysadmin team already has a number of projects on their plate, and this would need to be prioritized appropriately.

You're asking for something to be resolved in a matter of days, and historically that's just not how things work in a community run by volunteers.  Our git migration is a great example of something that was talked about for a long time (moving to a DVCS) and finally happened when a handful of volunteers stepped up and made it happen.

And before you volunteer yourself, it would be helpful to understand your contributions to the GNOME community.   

The worst thing that could happen in my opinion is that this implemented and then nothing happens.  Those users and developers who contribute ideas and then see no action against them won't be happy.  While I believe that it is a great idea to receive feedback and ideas from our users, free software historically has seen innovation by someone who wants to scratch an itch.  I don't know of a specific GNOME team or community member who is willing to sign up for maintaining a list of ideas, that may or may not be implemented by a developer.

To make a long story short, you may want to re-think your approach to this.

Paul

On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Wolter Hellmund <wolterh6 gmail com> wrote:

Because this proposal has been already widely discussed previously in
this mailing list, I request the resolution of it. But before you take a
side, I suggest you to read all the comments on this project proposal.

I would like to remember you all that this project is not supposed to
replace the current bug filing system, but rather to create a new
environment for the suggestion of new projects for GNOME.

If you feel uncomfortable with implementing IdeaTorrent's Brainstorm
System, please provide with alternatives instead of denying the
proposal.
--
Best regards,
Wolter Hellmund

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