Re: [gentoo-dev] Empty project: Desktop

[Raymond Jennings]

I think that a superproject can serve as a good rubber-band grouping
construct, personlaly

On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 11:19 AM, Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote:

> El jue, 11-08-2016 a las 13:15 +0300, Mart Raudsepp escribió:
> > [...]
> > It should be kept for the purposes of coordination between different
> > specific desktop projects and the grouping of them it provides as
> > subprojects.
> > However that doesn't mean it should have any packages in the tree
> > that
> > the desktop projects maintains itself personally, instead of one of
> > its
> > subprojects.
> >
> > One of my gentoo plans, when I have time, has been in reviving such
> > desktop-wide coordinations, possibly under the desktop project
> > banner.
> > E.g my started USE=gui and toolkit threads when I had time.
> >
> > Frankly, it would be weird to not have a project that broadly manages
> > all the desktop stuff.
> > We should manage this all better under a broad desktop project that
> > manages documentation, some policies, etc, but doesn't necessarily
> > have
> > any packages that it maintains in tree.
> >
> > If we need a new lead election per GLEP 39, I'm sure we have some
> > volunteers from the subprojects to throw their name in, that are
> > interested in having a good desktop-wide organization going on.
> > Myself
> > included.
> >
> >
> > Mart
> >
>
> Apart of me not understanding why are we reviving this that was already
> discussed when killing the old freedesktop-bugs herds in favor of the
> correct project, I don't think it makes sense to keep this concrete
> dead project for that potential and hypothetical changes that could
> benefit from it in the far future.
>
> Maybe when something of that is finally going to be done, we need that
> project and, in that case, you will be able of course to create your
> Project following the standard policy that allows to do that to any
> developers.
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