The path to GNOME 3.0
GNOME – the FOSS desktop for Linux and Unix – is currently at version 2.26. The next release will be 2.28, leading towards the next major release, version 3.0, which if everything goes well should be released in the spring of 2010. Our associates in Germany, heise open, recently had the opportunity to interview GNOME release manager Vincent Untz about the project. Untz reveals the projects future plans for the GNOME desktop and talks about the User Interface, the new window manager Mutter, the GNOME Shell, Zeitgeist and GNOME Mobile.
heise open: Could you tell us what your role in the GNOME project is?
Vincent Untz: I've been involved in various aspects of the project since I joined. Bug triage and code were the first two big steps I took; this lead me to maintain various modules of the GNOME Desktop (not always actively, unfortunately, since it takes a lot of time). At the moment, I'm chairing the release team as release manager and I'm the president of the GNOME Foundation (which actually mainly means chairing the GNOME Foundation Board, but "president" sounds better than "chairman" ).
The release team is the group of people who makes sure that technical things go smoothly, and get released in time and with the quality people expect. The Foundation is the non-profit organisation that sits behind the project.
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