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Ask questions to the candidates running for the GNOME Foundation elections

Submitted by vuntz on Mon, 2003-11-03 16:43. Gnome Foundation
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We want the GNOME community to be involved in the GNOME Foundation, and one way to involve you is to allow you to ask questions to the candidates running for the GNOME Foundation elections. Here's your chance to know what the candidates think about what is concerning you.

Please ask one question per post (and no more). Telsa will select the 10 best questions and we'll send them to the candidates.You may want to look at last year's questions.

Update: Note that you'll still be able to directly ask questions to the candidates by posting on foundation-list.Being on the board of the GNOME Foundation is not a technical job, so please try to avoid posting questions about developement and other hacking type stuff. The GNOME Foundation charter might also be of some interest.

Re: Ask questions to the candidates running for the GNOME Founda

Submitted by Anonymous George on Wed, 2003-11-05 03:35.

Inside as well as outside turned out not to be all that well overthought as had always been assumed. Again, Eazel's fast-delivery spirit contributed to the quick-fix state of the internal layout, while their urge to merge the Web browser component caused most of Nautilus' outside to be what it was.

I actually like the way Nautilus is designed, UI wise. I have no problems with the browser-style file manager, quite the contrary. What annoys me are the little bugs and that the inconsistencies between the list-view and the icon-view.

and I've the impression that even less people know how to make changes to Nautilus without breaking it.

Now I think you hit the nail on the head! That's exactly my feeling. And the few people who know Nautilus' code well are often busy working on other things. That's why more developers are needed. Maybe even full-time developers. A lot of companies rely on GNOME, maybe there could be a way to sponsor a guy to work full-time on Nautilus for a while. The last 20% of a project takes 80% of the time, they say.

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