CLARATION

I like Jason but he has a Sisyphean task to repair GNOMEs finances This project has spent years torching there reputation with other projects, consistently not holding there developers responsible for harassing others in cross desktop endeavors like Wayland, whilst expecting other projects to hold theirs responsible, constantly starting fights over the most minuscule nonsense. Spending the good part of 2 decades removing functionality from the project that people want and not adding things they do as noted by the most popular extensions and forks. The foundation is falling apart because they can't even agree on the kind of community they want to operate, you have younger members gloating about the fact that they have destroyed relations with companies that wanted to support them, and at the same time those same people are now getting banned from the foundation for these actions amongst others but are getting tons of support from the community, some of whom were part of the marketing team which is now basically up in smoke Then there's the matter of the complete and utter lack of leadership of the Foundation kicking out a sitting board member who was a whistle blower on the absolute corruption of the foundation, and cycling through 4 different leaders in the past 3 years, 1 of whom had a big focus on transparency which got the boot real quick. The difference between Thunderbird and GNOME is when Thunderbird was broke they had a solid reputation but just no money, a lot of GNOME developers hate or at the very least distrust the foundation, the foundation hates a lot of these younger voices who are ruining there reputation even more, other projects hate the developers, users have lost trust in the project and I don't know how you turn this ship around without going scorched earth.