24–29 Jul 2025
Europe/Rome timezone

Getting Things Done In GNOME

25 Jul 2025, 09:40
40m
40 Minute Presentation - In Person Project Organisation and Governance

Description

GNOME's technical governance is a nebulous concept: we are a project driven by various maintainers that talk among themselves, and consult with various teams, in order to implement project-wide features. None of this is codified. None of this is recorded for posterity, outside of issue trackers, merge requests, and the odd release notes. You have to be in the room where it happens, otherwise you find out way too late.

In this presentation we will look at what kind of technical governance is implemented and followed by other projects, and see a possible implementation of a GNOME-specific technical governance scheme.

Author(s) Bio

Emmanuele Bassi is a software developer working at Igalia, contributing to the core application development platform of GNOME. He has served on the Board of Directors of the GNOME Foundation, and was part of the GNOME Release Team.

Presentation Type In Person
Pronouns He/Him

Author

Emmanuele Bassi (Igalia)

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