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On Thu, 2015-07-02 at 21:50 +0200, Pacho Ramos wrote: |
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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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> > |
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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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> > |
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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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> > |
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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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> > |
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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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> > -- |
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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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Had a look at gentoo-mate repo and it seems it has stalled? |
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