Re: Thoughts about GNUstep

Le vendredi 1 mai 2026, 13:23:14 heure d’été d’Europe centrale Gregory 
Casamento a écrit :
> > 2. I emailed Gregory privately on two occasions and received no reply. The
> > role of a leader is people comms too, and being proactive with it. If you
> > are not interested, then nominate someone else for the role of
> > coordinating
> > communications while you are leading the development.
> 
> I appreciate the feedback on this and I apologize for missing your emails.
> I will definitely try to be more proactive.  Having been the lead on many
> projects professionally, I can tell you from experience (and, indeed,
> failure... from which you learn more 😆 that the role of a leader, aside
> from communication is *delegation*.  You must know when you don't do
> something well.  This is why many we have multiple maintainers for
> different sections of the project: Fred is more qualified to do the GUI
> work than I am, Richard is more qualified to do the Base/Foundation work
> than I am.  I have been and still, mainly, am the person responsible for
> Gorm and xcodebuild/buildtool.  As lead I am only the "point of contact"
> for the project.
> 
> I have looked at your emails while writing this and I will respond to the
> ones I believe you're referring to.   No excuses, though... I have been
> dealing with some pressing health issues that have been going on for some
> years.  I will detail that to the group in a separate email.
> 
> To address the larger point, it might be useful to consider having someone
> whose sole purpose is marketing and communication.  This strategy has been
> done before on projects such as Haiku, so we should at least consider that.

I've just emailed the Haïku person in charge about this. He is french and we 
frequently discuss about Haïku. I've asked about time needed, efficiency and 
"KPIs". Will let you know.

> > 3. I saw mails about meetings but never saw meeting minutes being posted
> > via email. That may be just me but I simply do not recall what was
> > happening here in last 5 years apart from a few apps being released and a
> > few new iterations of a desktop that is based on gnustep. Those were
> > discussed for like a week and tgen seemingly died. People interactions may
> > be ongoing but are poorly exposed and as an outsider I do not know who is
> > doing what currently.
> 
> The meeting recordings are being posted on my youtube channel.  It's
> challenging to create minutes for everything... the meeting recordings are
> here:  https://www.youtube.com/@gnustep
> 
> The minutes are actually being taken by nextcomputers.org.  I saw them post
> them once here, so you may be able to find it on the list.  I have
> considered using an automatic transcriber, but it might get confused as
> some people have different accents that the AI might not be able to
> understand.

May be, consider using Discord or Discourse for meetings, IRC and forums. 

-- 
Librement,
Xavier