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

Tue Nov 27 02:57:03 CET 2012

Joseph Wang a écrit :
+> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 9:51 PM, <mageia-dev-request at mageia.org
+> <mailto: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,
+
+Like probably most of us here.  And we are all volonteers.
+
+...
+
+> 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.
+
+These are contributions that will be appreciated now.
+
+The problem with Cinnamon, as Colin and others have stated, is that the
+overhead of having something as big as that is a lot more than just 
+packaging.  Even the pure packaging part takes a lot of time, as you 
+have pointed out, not counting the bugs of something being newly 
+developed.  For something like that we would need to be assured of 
+longer term support.  Something we haven't the ressources for at the moment.
+Note that this has been discussed many times on this list in the past, 
+before you got involved.  So Cinnamon will have to wait, but I suspect 
+that it could be doable in the future.  (I'd like to try it out myself.)
+
+Regards :)
+
+-- 
+André
+