[Mageia-dev] Bye Bye Mageia

Mon Nov 26 15:54:28 CET 2012

On 26 November 2012 14:47, Olav Vitters <olav at vitters.nl> wrote:
+> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 10:07:31PM +0800, Joseph Wang wrote:
+>> Anyway, gnome is in a death spiral
+>
+> If you don't like flames, don't start one.
+>
+> --
+> Regards,
+> Olav (GNOME release team member, Mageia packager)
+
+While this situation is unfortunate, and could have been prevented by
+finding out what needed done at the start I still cant help but feel
+that at the very lest the work that has been done should be kept as it
+is still unclear what will happen in the future.
+That said, the reasons for Mageia not including Cinnamon to me are
+valid, and while packaging Cinnamon may have been your direct aim,
+even an open source community driven project requires teams to have
+coordination and cant be a free for all, therefore, I feel that while
+your work on Cinnamon and the enthusiasm is really welcome, adding
+some direction to it, for instance trying to reduce the list on
+un-maintained packages that we already have would be far more
+beneficial to the project, albeit maybe more work like for you. But
+this is the compromise that contributing to a project requires.
+
+Schultz
+