GNOME Foundation boss exits after just four months The GNOME Foundation is once again hunting for a new boss after executive director Steven Deobald departed less than four months into the role, a move the board described as mutual. gnome GNOME Foundation's new executive director is Canadian, a techie, and a GNOME user READ MORE Deobald was handed the reins in May from …
"Holly Million, who practiced an unusual religion"
Unless she sacrificed children, what does this have to do with the price of tea in China? A lot of people believe a lot of superstition.
Criteria ought to be: Does she understand the technology? Does she understand the problems developers are facing? Does she have viable ideas for how to improve things and maybe score some extra funding?
It looks like some people are just brain dead ignorant knuckle draggers, who can't comprehend a lifestyle that may be different to theirs.
From the linked article.
"....such as that of industry commentator Bryan Lunduke. He seems unable to handle GNOME hiring a "Professional Shaman" as new Executive Director."
Yet another one (in fact, more than one, I didn't even know that there had been yet another person briefly holding the hot potato!)?
Gnome seems to be competing with Mozilla for inept management…
Maybe if Gnome development focused rather more on enhancements, rather than dehancements, things would be much better, but sadly Gnome nowadays seems to be on an unstoppable path towards disappearing up its own fundament.
I really rather liked Gnome 2, I found some of the features of Gnome 3 to be good innovations (the use of the <super> key; the window preview overview screen), but ever since then, it has just got worse (the utterly stupid enshittified hamburgerification of menus in place of the long-time very well tried and tested traditional (and reasonably standardised) WIMP menu style (where you can immediately see/tell which menu you want to look in to perform an action); the savage cuts to titlebars - leaving virtually nowhere to grab and move windows without accidentally triggering some sort of unexpected action; the possibly even more backwards abolition of useful themes, leaving you with only rather eye-searing grey-white or a black so black (not even a more attractive dark grey "nordic" style) that it's virtually impossible (and therefore a major accessibility problem) to tell active and inactive windows, and borders and toolbars apart). «sigh»
That's one interpretation, but the other common one is that one side wanted to get rid of the other side and the other side didn't want to explain it. That includes both "we wanted rid of them and they didn't want us to talk badly of them" and "they wanted out and we didn't want them telling others how crap they think we were". It doesn't actually have to be mutual as long as the two parties decided that was an easier story than going into detail.
Indeed. A variation on the theme is "we wanted them gone, we also didn't want them to sue us".
Whatever the case, it often boils down to PR-related moves, but I don't see a lot of good press, marketing etc. to salvage at this point. No one buys the "mutual" story from any situation like this (hence this thread), at best they end up looking inept again.
Since many folks have come to expect bumbling from Gnome, perhaps they reckoned the alternative was worse. [shrug]
Only the enthusiasts know whats going on in the complex world of linux.
All I know is I installed Linux mint on a PC several years ago and it sure dont work like that anymore with all the subsequent releases. Sort of a win7 to win10+ trajector.
Calendar that used to pop up your reminder just doesnt do it now. No matter what I do. I guess when somethings free and supported by a hard working but unrewarded community someone could take the big bux to screw it all up or yank their bit of code.
Gnome: “We are extremely grateful to Steven for all this and more. Despite these many positive achievements, Steven and the board have come to the conclusion that Steven is not the right fit for the Executive Director role at this time. We are therefore bidding Steven a fond farewell.”
An odd use of the phrase “not the right fit” considering the Gnome foundation is committed to diversity and inclusion. I figure everyone is inclusive only some people are more inclusive than others /s
It's a commonly used phrase for any reason why someone isn't doing something. I've used it, for example when turning down a job someone suggested. I think they would interpret "I'm not the right fit for this" a little more kindly than "That sounds terrible. Good luck finding someone willing to endure that". I don't think it's related to diversity or related characteristics.
Holly Million, who practiced an unusual religion, left the position in July 2024 after nine months
A difficult position to fill - they need a Jedi - they can begin their quest here...
I'd do it, but I'd carry a LARGE AXE [and I doubt they'd have me].
ADWAITA is the first item for the chopping block, especially those GREY ROUNDED RECTANGLES for the scroll bar, Default theme goes BACK to "Traditional OK" and GREY FLATSO ICONS go STRAIGHT to HELL, to be replaced with colorful 3D Skeuomorphic and/or 'shadowed' versions. "box shadow" is easy to put into CSS after all...
"Make Gnome USABLE Again" - and based on his early comments on Gnome3. LINUS would LOVE IT!
[to HELL with the "google chrome" look and the "Windows 10" look]
The intent is for a "community-based executive" to take over
Which community? I suspect they don't mean the community of users who are have to put up with the appalling design choices, but rather the community of developers who are determined to carry on doing their own thing despite the users.
I decided to peruse Ms Million's personal site as she sounds interesting. She says she wanted to know "What is all of this? Why am I here? How does this all work?". I believe that many GNOME users chant the very same mantra when they switch on their system each morning.
