On 3/1/07, Kristian Rietveld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Also the already well-known problem of core maintaince was discussed.  All
> people who could do core maintaince right now are employed by different
> companies and all assigned to specific tasks.  There is little energy left
> to get any (upstream) maintaince done after work.  Becoming a core maintainer
> is considered to take a lot of time, since those people need to be familiar
> with most of the code base which takes several years.  However, it was
> argued that people with less experience can help out by running different
> patches in bugzilla through test suites and use (the currently non-existing)
> internal documentation explaining the inside machinery of complex widgets
> to find problems.  Another question was how the GNOME Foundation could hire
> a core maintainer; this looks like a possibility, however there is nobody
> left for hiring at this moment.

Hi Kristian,

I am interested in contributing to the GTK+ project & have been
constantly reading about the lack of maintainers for the project. How
can I help?

Thanks,
Makuchaku
http://www.makuchaku.info/blog
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