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

Mon Feb 20 15:15:26 CET 2012

On 18/02/12 11:55, Michael Scherer wrote:
+> Le samedi 18 février 2012 à 10:33 +0100, Olivier Thauvin a écrit :
+>> * Michael Scherer (misc at zarb.org) wrote:
+>>> Le vendredi 17 février 2012 à 19:18 +0100, Claire Revillet a écrit :
+>>>> Hi,
+>>>> As a second point : there is still no xfce-* maintainer and as many
+>>>> people are using it on cauldron and as we have bug on "Could we have
+>>>> xfce directly from dvd/dual/live installation please" : it will be great
+>>>> that someone grab those packages. The candidat will have all our
+>>>> gratitude :) (and bug report :p )
+>>> If there is so much users, why is there no volunteer for taking just one
+>>> package ?
+>> Being user does not mean having knowledge to maintain it.
+> 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.
+>
+Here are the xfce bugs we have (fast search for xfce or xfce4 in RPM 
+Package field, without enhancement requests), the oldest one dates from 
+July 18th:
+
+https://bugs.mageia.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&field0-0-0=cf_rpmpkg&bug_severity=critical&bug_severity=major&bug_severity=normal&bug_severity=minor&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&type0-0-0=anywords&value0-0-0=xfce%20xfce4
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