From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5388E158083 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2024 17:47:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2185AE2BAC; Wed, 25 Sep 2024 17:47:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (mail.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E41DAE2BA9 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2024 17:47:34 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: Subject: [gentoo-dev] Help needed for maintaining GNOME From: Mart Raudsepp To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Cc: gnome@gentoo.org Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2024 20:47:30 +0300 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Evolution 3.52.2 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Archives-Salt: e3c4da8a-7b6d-4e92-bf07-8618c3f540f3 X-Archives-Hash: 94fecd4e54cce05bb025903e779a2cc1 Hello The state of GNOME in Gentoo could use a bunch of work and we don't really have the developers currently to take care of it. My own grandiose plans to be back and keep things in good order faced sad reality (a bunch of personal things) and we could really use some help in at least carefully reviewing and merging a contributors lots of work, and hopefully more. While I don't have the time, energy and currently motivation to be hands-on in the git tree right now, I am online on IRC rather constantly (lets say while waiting on work rust code compilation ;) and happy to help on-board an interested developer or developers with any peculiarities (which hopefully would get documented in the process), questions, module interactions, whatever is needed, including during PR reviews, just please do keep in touch, so I can offload things from my brain for a more sustainable future. Given a huge stack of available pull requests from a contributor, the main need right now is someone with a Gentoo developer hat who can help review these and get good things merged, fixed what's needed, and keep an eye out on the bugs. Of course contributors are welcome too, but please keep an eye out for not duplicating work that's already waiting review. To my knowledge, one big issue right now is a circular dep between glib->gobject-introspection->glib, which needs proper solving to move forward with things. Or at least look at reducing the glib requirement in gnome-shell some way to at least unleash that core stack for our users. There are ideas we can talk about. Mart