Re: [gentoo-dev] Project summaries

[Peter Alfredsen]

On Wed, 6 May 2009 08:49:53 +0200
Christian Faulhammer <fauli@g.o> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> any project lead/member can post an answer to this mail for a status
> report:

Gentoo .NET progress

Currently doing good. Nothing much to report. Everything is shiny
and well-oiled. SVN ebuilds of trunk and branches were recently 
committed to the main tree, which will help when people report bugs.
Generally trying to maintain as little distance between the main tree
and the overlay as possible, so user feedback can be utilized most
efficiently. ~arch is really the testing branch for Mono packages, IOW,
but I try to fix bugs real quick when they're reported so most of you
never notice they were there.

Cool new apps which everyone should be using:

Tasque		for managing your everyday scheduling needs.
Monsoon		shiny bittorrent client
Bareftp		easy and accessible ftp client

Cool old apps which everyone should be using:
Tomboy		notetaking application
Banshee		the best media-player out there
Beagle		desktop search
Gnome-Do	LOOK! SHINY!

And of course mod_mono, for your ASP.NET needs.

What we need:
People who care about portable.NET enough to make it great.
People who use the ASP.NET features. I can probably debug it for you,
but if there's a bug in mod_mono, I won't discover it before you do.

Notable successes:
Bumping Mono-2.4 before Novell :-)
Shaving bugs assigned to dotnet@g.o down to a reasonable level.
Attracting users to Gentoo through our .NET offering.

Future projects:
revdep-rebuild support for mono!
AOT support
Getting Mono tests to not fail in Sandbox.
Reducing the bus-factor. I have too much of this stuff in my head. I
should write docs... Later.