As an outsider, the GNOME Community looks very unwelcoming to new people. Outside merge requests go unanswered for years (even when a bug fix), yet similar merge requests from known contributors get through at a much much faster pace. People are ostracised as rude or ungrateful when asking for features or when giving feedback at how a design choice hurts their usage (appindicators...).
Examples
Triple buffering patch
DRM leases
AppIndicators
Drop of Xorg support
Examples
Triple buffering patch
DRM leases
AppIndicators
Drop of Xorg support
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