ANNOUNCE: gtk-xfce-engine 3.0.0 released

[Ray Andrews]

On 29/04/12 03:36 AM, Jannis Pohlmann wrote:

Jannis,

Thanks, your post was a good introduction.  I find navigating around the 
xfce site less than intuitive. I should have found those pages by myself.
>    http://xfce.org/about/releasemodel
I'm quite surprised by how formal and structured your model is.
How do you resolve disputes? Do you have an official list of guys who 
are entitled to vote on issues?
>
> 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.
I'd like to get involved if someone would mentor me -- get me up to 
speed with the culture, methods, tools, etc.  I was a pretty good coder 
back in DOS, tho I don't know how many of my skills would be portable to 
xfce.

>
>    - Jannis
>