I have calls with important people sometimes, so I am reporting these in the interest of transparency. This was planned to be a 30 minute call … we ended up talking for 2.5 hours! Our relationship with GNOME is important. I’ve been a user since October GNOME and I have also briefly served on the Fo…

Gardiner is awesome and pretty direct in his feedback. If something rocks, he is honest about it. :star_struck:

:wav: Hey dudes. Thanks for the chat, Jorge! Was fun… we’ll have to block a little more time for ourselves on the next call. important people ha! Perfect timing for Bazaar, btw… since Canonical is giving up on bzr the name’s all yours! :wink:

[image] steven: Perfect timing for Bazaar, btw… since Canonical is giving up on bzr the name’s all yours! Some great folks on that team! Thanks for dropping by Steven!

Great to see you here, Steven! :raising_hands:

This is weird, I see a complete interview (I suppose?) In my Feed reader, but the link goes toward this page. KDE Plasma has the ability to search for an app and directly install it, btw :wink:

I‘ve also been doing that all the time on Gnome? Frankly, I‘m a bit confused here.

I really hope this takes off, and I will go test Bazaar and make donations to the developer. But if I may… You mentioned marketing and social – if you are trying to attract new users to Linux, some of the dev responses on Reddit are aggressive. It wasn’t directed at me, but seeing one of the Devs…

^^this^^ It’s been 2 decades since I spent real time with Fedora, and most of my computing world has been Windows-land. Some of the “how do I…” and “where do I read…” questions were bounced in the manner described. I’m predisposed to like Bazzite and Bluefin so I weathered those encounters and kept…

Discussed with some folks, understood, we’ll work on it, thanks!

You’re not gonna be kicked out for voicing your opinion. I’m the one that made that comment, that was not intended as a jab to the poster, but rather a statement to everyone else in what had become a popular thread. The title claimed it was a distro issue and I wanted it to be clear it was simple u…

Transparency Report: Steven Deobald, GNOME Executive Director

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