ANNOUNCE: gtk-xfce-engine 3.0.0 released

[Jannis Pohlmann]

Hey,

On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 07:43:03 -0700
Ray Andrews <rayandrews at eastlink.ca> wrote:

> On 28/04/12 03:32 AM, Peter de Ridder wrote:
> > gtk-xfce-engine 3.0.0 is now available for download from
> >
> I get the feeling, from looking at the release messages, that each of 
> the developers has responsibility for a particular branch of the 
> project, is that correct? Speaking of which, is there some doc 
> explaining the the way the devs have organized themselves?

I would say we organize ourselves dynamically. It may not be obvious
from the outside immediately but there is a lot of information on how
works on what by looking at AUTHORS files in the release tarballs /
repositories, looking at git logs to see who made changes recently and
of course by looking at the credits.

Our development and release process is described on

  http://xfce.org/about/releasemodel

and usually the plans/ideas for upcoming releases are documented on

  http://wiki.xfce.org/releng/4.10/roadmap

which includes tasks with assignees. We also have a Design SIG where
people discuss visual improvements and where developers pick up tasks
to implement them: 

  http://wiki.xfce.org/design/start

But that's it. It is always worth discussing possible contributions
upfront with the maintainers to make sure they are more likely to be
accepted. Such contributions can then easily be prepared by publishing a
cloned git repository anywhere and the web and pointing us to it.
This is a process that does not really depend on the organization of
the developer team, although of course, you should know whom to talk
to. But again, that information is available (see above).

The rest is communication on IRC and the xfce-dev at xfce.org mailing
list. We have a tendency to discuss more on IRC and less on the mailing
list nowadays, which I guess can be a bit of a pain when trying to get
involved. So there is room for improvement, as always.

  - Jannis