[Mageia-dev] Hello Mageia!!!!

Mon Nov 26 19:54:59 CET 2012

OK.  Everything is better.
+
+One reason I hate posting on public e-mail lists is that you get into
+silly flame wars
+over miscommunication.  Putting everything into updates_testing and keeping it
+out of the core Mageia 3 is exactly the right thing to do.  I can go
+ahead with trying
+to package cinnamon-themes and cinnamon-extras.
+
+I would like to attend the weekly meeting, but I'm in Asia.
+
+> You've clearly spent time on Cinnamon but at no point did I see you post
+> any emails regarding these plans here.
+
+That's because
+
+1) I try to avoid posting to public e-mail lists when I don't know the social
+conventions and people involved (and if they don't know me), and
+
+2) it happened by accident.  I'm waiting for Fedora to release pyp2rpm with
+my changes, and I had some extra cycles to burn.  There are a few tricky
+bits in getting cinnamon to work with Mageia, but it "drops in" pretty well
+
+3) it was something of an experiment.  I could have found that it was totally
+impossible in which case there wouldn't be much of a point in announcing
+ahead of time that I was going to do it.
+
+> if you're just interested in packaging stuff in a small bubble, separate
+> from everything else, then I'm not sure it would work out that well anyway.
+