From time to time somebody comes into our #dropline channel on irc.freenode.net and asks if we need some help, or any other thing. Yes we need your help, and we want to continue to develop our beloved desktop. In case you are one of those who steps in the channel and asks something, don’t worry if you do not receive the answer immediately. It is because we are from many
different time zones, and especially not a hugely populated channel. But sooner or later your answer comes. So please if you have an will to help, step in and wait there for somebody answering you. Of course we are not developing here to live, but we are doing it for our own passion, therefore don’t expect it to be perfect.
In many years I’m here with that project we had ups and downs, but important is that we are still here, probably now its a longer down period, but hopefully this will soon be over. In my personal opinion a community project needs to be driven in some way from a person or few of them, but it should be mainly done by the community. In our case it is like this just that our community is small and therefore we need more time to do the things.
Right now we have some packages done for Slackware64-13.1 , if everything goes ok, and time permits it, soon we will be ready with them and finally release our new gnome desktop, after a longer time without updating it.
Again, there is plenty ways of helping. Some time ago somebody asked if we were in need of an editor, I can say, yes, we need an editor, we need any kind of help, so we need people from the filed of graphics, themes, audio, video, and so on, not only programmers or packagers. There is a very very large spectrum of the things we can do and improve.
That’s it for now and if you want to join us , you are more than welcome !!
– The dropline GNOME development team.