Re: GNOME Roadmap - Information request for gok

[David Bolter <david bolter utoronto ca>]

Hi, please include Gerd (cc'ed) on future GOK Roadmap requests.

cheers,
David

GNOME Roadmap Gang wrote:
> Dear module maintainer,
>
> GNOME 2.24 got released a bit more than a month ago and we all started
> looking forward for the next releases; looking forward so much that we
> would actually love to know your plans, get to live.gnome.org to update
> your roadmap page now.
>
> They are listed at http://live.gnome.org/RoadMap/Modules ; tell us
> about your plans for 2.26.
>
> But there is a twist this time, we want to plan further than the next
> six months: we want to define the major goals for the next two years, as
> the community is willing to implement fresh/innovative ideas that
> improves GNOME's user experience.
>
> Two major ideas came out from the UI hackfest, a new desktop shell and
> file management revamping, we believe those are exciting ideas as an
> initial effort to define our 3.0 release.  But *YOU* are those who make
> GNOME, and we want to read about your ideas.
>
> You will be right thinking two years is a long time, you will also be
> right thinking it is a short time, you know best what can be achieved
> in such a time frame, so think about the overall user experience, be
> free to "break" the current UI (if that brings improvements to our
> users, obviously).
>
> That's it, think over it, discuss it with friends, other developers,
> the various teams, usability, art, and tell us all you want about it
> in the RoadMap pages.  It is very important, as it will also be used
> for our release notes and the press coverage of our next release.
>
> Could you do this for December the 4th?
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>         Frederic, for the Roadmap Gang
>
> PS: http://live.gnome.org/RoadMap/ModuleTemplate is a template you
>     can copy/paste for your module.
>