[Mageia-dev] Mageia-dev Digest, Vol 27, Issue 85

Mon Nov 26 15:49:43 CET 2012

On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 9:51 PM, <mageia-dev-request at mageia.org> wrote:
+
+> Hmm, have you missed that there will be no Cinnamon in Mageia repos?
+> Part of packagers "job" is to keep eye on the dev ml.
+>
+
+Maybe I'll stay on for another day or so.  I've been using Mageia/Mandriva
+for years,
+and so I'll keep it on my disk for another two or three days.
+
+Let me tell you about my day.  I go to work, I work for 12 hours a day.  I
+come
+home.  On a good day, I have maybe an hour or two to work on my hobby.
+I might have a few hours to work on weekends.  But I have a *job* and
+*kids*.
+
+I find coding relaxing.  I find packaging relaxing and educational.  I've
+actually
+learned a lot about rpm.  I've also learned a lot about how cinnamon works.
+
+But I have a *job*.  Here I'm a volunteer.  I got cinnamon working for my
+own
+amusement.  if I have to spend lots of time keeping track of e-mail
+discussions,
+then I'm just not going to have the time to do anything "real."  I find
+coding *fun*.
+I find office politics and taking orders *not fun*.
+
+And I've been quiet, because I'm a newbie.  I keep my mouth shut, and watch
+what's going on before I say anything.  If I feel like I fit in, I stay.
+If not, I don't.
+
+I have a dozen or so packages in the queue.  I've been working with the
+Fedora
+to get a python to rpm conversion script working, and I have about a dozen
+python packages that are ready to be uploaded.  I'm interested in creating
+a first
+rate platform for astronomy.  I've got ds9 working.  I've packaged glamor,
+and I've
+gotten an open source ati driver working for Radeonsi.  I want to start
+packaging heavy duty astrophysics code on Mageia.
+
+If you find this useful.  Then take it.  If not, I'll find somewhere else.
+Say thank you
+and smile at me, and I'm a sucker, and I'll keep doing it.
+
+But remember I have a *job*.  If this starts feeling like *work* then
+there's no
+reason for me to be here.  I'll put up with some politics if it means
+getting something
+useful done in the end, and I'll spend a lot of time if I learn something,
+but my
+time is precious, and I could have been spending the last hour trying to
+get some
+more themes packaged rather than writing useless e-mail (and I hate e-mail,
+I get enough of this non-sense at work).
+
+I've been using Mageia/Mandriva for years, so I'll wait a few days before
+wiping
+my disk to see how people react.  I'll keep packaging and debugging stuff.
+I
+*will* work on cinnamon, because I think it's a cool desktop.  There is one
+major
+bug, that I'd like to help fix.  You can't tell me to stop working on
+cinnamon.
+
+You can keep cinnamon out of the distribution, but that's up to you.....
+
+Also, in case someone wants to have a discussion rather than *ordering* me
+to do something....
+
+I really don't think that cinnamon is ready for Mageia 3.  There are some
+pretty
+major bugs in it, and it's not ready for prime time.  It would be useful to
+keep it
+in the testing section, and then target it for Mageia 4.  I do think it
+would be a
+good idea to at least start looking at alternatives to Gnome 3 since they
+are
+self-destructing, and I've been *extremely* impressed by cinnamon (minus two
+annoying bugs which I'm trying to fix).
+-------------- next part --------------
+An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
+URL: </pipermail/mageia-dev/attachments/20121126/9e13deab/attachment.html>
+