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From: "Daniel Campbell (zlg)" <zlg@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New Project: MATE
Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2015 08:37:36
Message-Id: 559649C6.3080801@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New Project: MATE by NP-Hardass
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4 On 07/02/2015 12:40 PM, NP-Hardass wrote:
5 > Greetings all,
6 >
7 > Looking for some feedback on creating a new project and herd for
8 > the MATE Desktop environment. The goal, like many other DE based
9 > projects, is to provide up to date packaging and as complete an
10 > offering of the DE's packages as possible.
11 >
12 > Currently, the packages of the MATE Desktop DE are listed as
13 > maintained by TomWij (who is on long term devaway). Prior to
14 > acceptance into the Gentoo repo, it was worked on by lxnay and
15 > steev. All 3 have either not responded to inquiries, or have
16 > expressed limited interest in maintaining the DE. As a result, I
17 > felt the best way to support users was to move support of MATE away
18 > from any individual, and create a project and associated herd to
19 > manage the packages, thus allowing any developer that is interested
20 > in helping out an easy means of doing so.
21 >
22 > I've created a prospective Wiki project page:
23 > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:MATE and intend to have a
24 > mail alias, mate@g.o, and an email channel for Gentoo
25 > support and development, #gentoo-mate.
26 >
27 > Any feedback regarding the aforementioned would be greatly
28 > appreciated.
29 >
30 >
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32 The wiki page says "Gentoo Gnome Project" in the description. Typo?
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34 I also think you mean an IRC channel, not an e-mail channel.
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36 Nitpicks aside, I think it's an overdue change. Each DE should have a
37 project attached to it IMO.
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41 Daniel Campbell
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Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New Project: MATE NP-Hardass <NP-Hardass@g.o>