GDK Stability, Reliability, Usability, Performance and Maintainership

Overview

The stability, reliability, usability and performance of GDK has been quite an issue lately.

With @ashmckenzie moved to pastures new I suspect there will be even less capacity to focus on the GDK.

I have raised similar concerns in the past but this remains an issue.

I believe this is the number 1 problem preventing us from attracting new contributors and retaining existing ones.

Let's see if we can come up with any ideas/way forward 🤞

Impacted categories

The following categories relate to this issue:

• gdk-reliability - e.g. When a GDK action fails to complete.
• gdk-usability - e.g. Improvements or suggestions around how the GDK functions.
• gdk-performance - e.g. When a GDK action is slow or times out.

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