From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A288C1381F3 for ; Sat, 19 Oct 2013 16:24:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4B18DE0B04; Sat, 19 Oct 2013 16:24:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 78797E0AFD for ; Sat, 19 Oct 2013 16:24:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from marga.jer-c2.orkz.net (D4B2706A.static.ziggozakelijk.nl [212.178.112.106]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: jer) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0C19833F145 for ; Sat, 19 Oct 2013 16:24:33 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 18:24:30 +0200 From: Jeroen Roovers To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs Message-ID: <20131019182430.2e4e1394@marga.jer-c2.orkz.net> In-Reply-To: <5262AFFB.7000408@gentoo.org> References: <1382196771.24878.25.camel@belkin5> <5262A8BB.1030409@sporkbox.us> <20131019161050.GA21091@earth.members.linode.com> <5262AFFB.7000408@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.2-dirty (GTK+ 2.24.17; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: fb9e2cb4-0dba-485e-bbd6-3e21aa05c67a X-Archives-Hash: 86710711a7c22197bac15ced2309f019 On Sat, 19 Oct 2013 12:14:51 -0400 "Anthony G. Basile" wrote: > I'm worried about removing desktop-wm. I think we need some new > developers in that direction. I too am busy, but I think the best > use of my time might be mentoring new devs that want to pick up some > of the weak areas. With many disparate packages and because people tend to use a single window manager on a single machine at any time, developers dedicated to specific packages have always maintained the desktop-wm packages quite well in general. The current state with the herd removed reflects that better than with the herd still in place. Time will tell if some of the window managers are still being used or not and if maintaining them is useful. jer