Very ambitious.
Well, if you think you can raise that amount,
and you
think developers will want to work for that amount...
best of luck with
this.
We in GNOME are spread too thin right now, and +10 paid
developers would be a huge help.
OSTree seems relatively mature, but isn't really being used on the
desktop, except by Endless; not sure that should be a priority.
xdg-app
is important; it needs help in the sandboxing department, and work on
porting existing GNOME apps to xdg-app, but this is a priority for Red
Hat so not sure it should be for Autonomia.
GNOME Shell has a huge
Bugzilla queue, but I don't normally notice bugs and we've
intentionally stopped with the UI changes as the design has matured, so
not sure that should be a priority.
GTK+ already has lots of
experienced developers and doesn't need more help.
Designers are really
important, but the ones we already have are generating top-notch
designs faster than we can implement, so I wouldn't invest there.
Brazilian Portuguese has 98% translation coverage of GNOME 3.18 and 96%
of GNOME 3.20; you could close the gap, but probably that won't be a
full-time job?
I would focus more effort on the GNOME core apps and less on the other
areas. Music and Web from your list could use one dedicated developer
apiece, for example, and I have a sizable list of other promising apps
that could as well: Chat and News immediately spring to mind. I think
right now our apps story is where we're weakest; since most of the apps
are not so important for enterprise customers, Red Hat doesn't seem to
care about them as much.
Of course, you were very helpful. :)
Wishing you the best with Autonomia,