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 983791381F3 for ; Sat, 19 Oct 2013 16:28:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 97FF3E0B01; Sat, 19 Oct 2013 16:27:52 +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 A55E3E0AE4 for ; Sat, 19 Oct 2013 16:27:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.3.7] (cpe-69-207-16-110.buffalo.res.rr.com [69.207.16.110]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: blueness) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7C17333F15F for ; Sat, 19 Oct 2013 16:27:50 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <5262B378.9090303@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 12:29:44 -0400 From: "Anthony G. Basile" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130922 Thunderbird/17.0.9 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs References: <1382196771.24878.25.camel@belkin5> <5262A8BB.1030409@sporkbox.us> <20131019161050.GA21091@earth.members.linode.com> <5262AFFB.7000408@gentoo.org> <20131019182430.2e4e1394@marga.jer-c2.orkz.net> In-Reply-To: <20131019182430.2e4e1394@marga.jer-c2.orkz.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: c87bf214-71f1-4a8b-886f-d7662e181a28 X-Archives-Hash: 3f6f8f63a8ebcbc22a203581b82205b8 On 10/19/2013 12:24 PM, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > 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 > Okay thanks, that make me feel better. -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] E-Mail : blueness@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 1FED FAD9 D82C 52A5 3BAB DC79 9384 FA6E F52D 4BBA GnuPG ID : F52D4BBA