ANNOUNCE: gtk-xfce-engine 3.0.0 released

[Jannis Pohlmann]

Hey,

On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 08:35:53 -0700
Ray Andrews <rayandrews at eastlink.ca> wrote:

> 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?

the release model says nothing about voting. Due to the small size of
the development team, we rarely have serious disputes or disagreements.
Voting rarely happens and if it ever does, it does not take place in a
formal fashion.

> > 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.

Mentoring is always bit difficult because there's not many developers
who have time to help you. There's various ways in which people can
start contributing, like fixing bugs that annoy themselves or
implementing small features. Questions related to that are best asked
on IRC or the ML and then all you can do is hope that someone
will reply. ;)

  - Jannis