[Mageia-dev] Qt-based software unusable under XFCE since almost 2 days

Sun Feb 19 11:14:18 CET 2012

Am 19.02.2012 10:35, schrieb Païou:
+> Michael Scherer<misc at ...>  writes:
+>
+>>
+>> I know at least 2 people in the packagers group who use xfce. So if they
+>> have no knowledge for maintaining rpms ( and a dm doesn't require more
+>> knowledge than anything else ), that would be shocking.
+>>
+>> Anyway, if a major DE is unmaintained, maybe we should start to think
+>> removing it until there is enough volunteer, since we do not want to
+>> have a popular application to be crappy due to lack of maintainer. This
+>> would be lying to user, and giving them false expectations.
+>>
+>
+> @Michael
+> If you want to make the users of Mageia run away, continue on this tone!
+> I left Mandriva for the same reason
+>
+>
+I don't see the reason for this answer.
+Michael is just trying to make sure, we don't have a unmaintained major DE.
+Now, some maybe a bit harsh words on the developer mailing list - this 
+is no user support list or forum or whatever - are far better, then 
+having something like xfce unmaintained.
+After all, what makes users run away: some not all that courteous mails 
+on the -dev ml, whose existence they may or may not be aware of or a 
+perhaps buggy, not updated, unmaintained desktop?
+And if we keep a whole DE unmaintained in the repos, what does that say 
+about overall package quality?
+
+Oliver
+
+