"My understanding of GNOME is this: GNOME does not have technical leadership – it hasn’t had clear technical leadership since, as I understand it, the creation

"My understanding of GNOME is this: GNOME does not have technical leadership – it hasn’t had clear technical leadership since, as I understand it, the creation of the GNOME Foundation (at which point, by design, the board was given a mandate to build and define GNOME, and then soon afterwards removed that mandate from itself). The foundation does not now dictate any vision or direction for GNOME." This is a huge problem, as I see it. Even in OSS, where you have very capable people, someone needs to provide direction. I'm reminded of a military story, which I will paraphrase. Single most important thing in warfare is to have a known objective. That way if the person in charge is killed, as is the second in charge, the troops still know they need to take that hill or everyone dies. I take the same approach to software and it has worked my entire career. If Gnome doesn't have a stated vision/objective, it is no wonder it looks like chaos to someone outside! Someone from Gnome _should_ step-up and provide some leadership, some technical direction, some market direction or some general foresight that things are going in the right direction. I hope the author is wrong and there is someone already doing this, but if not...