Re: Contribution to GNUStep

[Gregory John Casamento]

Umesh,

As with any open source project, people generally find their own level and determine what they want to work on.

The direction of the project is determined by myself and the other maintainers, they are:

* Nicola Pero - GNUstep-make (Makefile infrastructure), Renaissance
* Richard Frith-MacDonanld - GNUstep-base (Foundation implementation)
* Fred Kiefer - GNUstep-gui (AppKit implementation)
* Myself - Chief Maintainer, Gorm (Interface Builder implementation) maintainer

Other significant developers are:

* Adam Fedor - Former Chief maintainer
* Riccardo Mottolla - Co-maintainer of GAP and contributor to GNUstep.

Please feel free to join the mailing lists and suggest any interesting ideas, patches are other contributions you feel are worthwhile. :)  Also, feel free to ask any questions you feel are relevant.

Later, GC

Gregory Casamento -- Principal Consultant - OLC, Inc
# GNUstep Chief Maintainer

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From: Umesh Tank <address@hidden>
To: Gregory John Casamento <address@hidden>
Cc: address@hidden
Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 10:50:25 AM
Subject: Re: Contribution to GNUStep

Gregory Casamento,

Thanks a lot for your valuable replay, appreciated. I will definitely send an email to address@hidden, but before that i have a few questions. I will be grateful to you if you will answer them.

1) Who will assign tasks?
2) What will be the time lines (or dead lines)?

Thanks and regards,
Umesh

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 8:07 PM, Gregory John Casamento <address@hidden> wrote:

Umesh,

As long as that notice remains up in the GNU website, we're still looking. :) 

 
As a GNU project, it is recommended for each member to sign an assignment to the FSF (since the project is owned by them).   You need to send an email to address@hidden requesting an assignment for GNUstep.

GNUstep currently needs work on the following areas:

Full Cocoa (not Carbon) Compatibility
Full Objective-C++ 2.0 Support
Garbage collection
RAD IDE (ProjectCenter is nearing completion, but needs work)
Full WebKit support
Full Linux, BSD, Windows and Mac OS portability
Themed and native (?) GUI widget support
(Certain Core* libraries, distinguished from Apple's)
OPENSTEP and Xcode Migration scripts

GNUstep is fairly complete at this point, but it does need the things mentioned above.   So there's plenty of work to dive into.

Later, GC

Gregory Casamento -- Principal Consultant - OLC, Inc
# GNUstep Chief Maintainer

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From: Umesh Tank <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 5:25:55 AM
Subject: Contribution to GNUStep

Hi,

 

On the main GNU website (http://www.gnu.org/), I show “GNUstep Developers Wanted”. Are you still looking for developers? If yes may I know what are the requirements (Technical, terms, conditions, etc.) for the contribution to the GNUstep project. I would like to contribute to the project.

 

Thanks and regards,

Umesh