Re: [gentoo-dev] Looking for people willing to take care of Cinnamon

[Mart Raudsepp <leio@gentoo.org>]

On Wed, 2016-08-24 at 11:43 +0200, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:
> On 08/24/2016 11:26 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
> > Hello
> > 
> > Most Gnome team member are not willing to keep maintaining cinnamon
> > ebuilds (specially since most of us are not even using it and,
> > also, we
> > already have enough load with Gnome ebuilds alone). 
> > 
> > We were wondering if maybe some other people would be willing to
> > maintain them under a new Cinnamon Project or similar, in that
> > case,
> > feel free to create the project and take it
> > 
> > Thanks a lot
> > 
> 
> 
> I'm using it so would certainly be willing to join a project to help
> out
> with it. At the same time I'm not sufficiently familiar with
> gnome-packages etc that I'd want to do it on my own.

I believe this is the list of packages we want to give away:

gnome-extra/cinnamon
gnome-extra/cinnamon-control-center
gnome-extra/cinnamon-desktop
gnome-extra/cinnamon-menus
gnome-extra/cinnamon-screensaver
gnome-extra/cinnamon-session
gnome-extra/cinnamon-settings-daemon
gnome-extra/cinnamon-translations
gnome-extra/cjs
gnome-extra/nemo
x11-wm/muffin

but there might be more that don't contain "cinnamon" in the name or
don't have linuxmint as remote-id.

We keep maintaining all the GNOME packages cinnamon relies on.

So please just form a project and take em. Hopefully others can help
too; in GNOME team tetromino has been most involved with them.
I think it would be fine with us if the project is on paper a
subproject of GNOME if you want that instead of a top-level project, we
just don't want to be responsible to it and have us feel guilty with
bugs of it shown up in our GNOME saved searches, or give an impression
we are overstaffed which I guess a subproject kinda might do.
Or a subproject of Desktop, which I see was already deleted with my
objections for now, so nvm...


Mart