Re: [gentoo-dev] Empty project: Desktop

[Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org>]

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.