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El jue, 02-07-2015 a las 15:40 -0400, NP-Hardass escribió: |
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> Greetings all, |
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> Looking for some feedback on creating a new project and herd for the |
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> MATE Desktop environment. The goal, like many other DE based |
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> projects, |
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> is to provide up to date packaging and as complete an offering of the |
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> DE's packages as possible. |
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> Currently, the packages of the MATE Desktop DE are listed as |
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> maintained |
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> by TomWij (who is on long term devaway). Prior to acceptance into |
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> the |
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> Gentoo repo, it was worked on by lxnay and steev. All 3 have either |
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> not responded to inquiries, or have expressed limited interest in |
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> maintaining the DE. As a result, I felt the best way to support |
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> users |
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> was to move support of MATE away from any individual, and create a |
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> project and associated herd to manage the packages, thus allowing any |
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> developer that is interested in helping out an easy means of doing |
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> so. |
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> I've created a prospective Wiki project page: |
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> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:MATE and intend to have a mail |
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> alias, mate@g.o, and an email channel for Gentoo support and |
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> development, #gentoo-mate. |
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> Any feedback regarding the aforementioned would be greatly |
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> appreciated. |
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> -- |
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> NP-Hardass |
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I fully agree and I hope that helps with current MATE maintenance that |
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is a bit stalled due to Tomwij devaway |
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Thanks! |
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