Re: GNOME Roadmap - Information request has been sent

[Dave Neary <dneary gnome org>]

Hi,

<annoying pest>
Any chance of launching a public call like this for 3.0 soon?
</annoying pest>

Cheers,
Dave.

GNOME Roadmap Gang wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> As part of our roadmap process, we have just sent the roadmap
> information requests to all module maintainers and developers. If you
> are a maintainer/developer of a GNOME official module and haven't
> received the cited message, just let us know about which modules we've
> missed.
> 
> As usual, as soon as we have a first draft of the GNOME 2.26 roadmap,
> we'll heat up some discussions in desktop-devel-list about this and
> the future stable releases of GNOME in order to get feeback about the
> roadmap, discuss about potential cross-module plans, and so on.
> 
> This is also a request to share the ideas you have on GNOME 3, both
> GNOME-wide and wrt the modules you maintain.
> 
> 
> You can keep track of the roadmapping process for all 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
> 
> 
> And here is a copy of the mail sent to all module maintainers and
> developers:
> 
> 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.
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Dave Neary
GNOME Foundation member
dneary gnome org