[$] Governing GNOMEs: how the project's technical decision-making is evolving

Emmanuele Bassi kicked off a project to improve GNOME's technical governance with a presentation about his ideas (video) at GUADEC 2025.

His nudging has led the project to, slowly, work on creating more formal structures for technical governance. It is adopting a teams structure and looking toward creating a steering committee, as well as bootstrapping a Request for Comments (RFC) process.

If adopted, GNOME would require RFCs for design, user experience, architectural, and other changes that carry a major impact on the project.