[Mageia-dev] unity on mageia

Thu Sep 13 14:02:48 CEST 2012

On 12/09/12 22:53, JA Magallón wrote:
+> On 09/12/2012 10:05 PM, Damian Ivanov wrote:
+>>>>
+>>>> My name isDamian Ivanov. Xiao-Long Chen and me are the maintainers of
+>>>> unity desktop environment for openSUSE and Fedora, Xiao-Long
+>>>> additionally maintains
+>>>> also unity on Arch Linux. We use for building the packages the open
+>>>> build service https://build.opensuse.org/project/monitor?project=GNOME
+>>>> %3AAyatana
+>>>> It actually builds install-able and usable packages for Fedora and
+>>>> openSUSE. This week we'll give an official announcement that unity
+>>>> works on openSUSE and will make a live CD available based on openSUSE
+>>>> with unity. We would also like to see Mageia running unity, but this
+>>>> would not be done by us ( I am mainly working on openSUSE, Xiao-Long
+>>>> is working on Fedora and openSUSE). But I offer my help, if you want
+>>>> to do it also with obs on GNOME:Ayatana. At the moment the structure
+>>>> of a package is as follows:
+> ...
+>>>> There are users of Mageia who would love to see it in
+>>>> Mageia: https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=130
+>>>>
+>>>> It would't need to be done that much to get it working on Mageia. The
+>>>> spec files for openSUSE and Fedora are quite similar and based on each
+>>>> other.
+> 
+> I have no voice nor vote, but I really would prefer Mageia invest efforts
+> if any on integrating Cinnamon better than Unity. But that is just personal
+> stuff...
+> 
+
+Everybody has a voice and vote, it's a community :)
+
+I would imagine there are members of the community out there who would
+love to see Unity included. It only needs somebody to actually do it.
+We're still quite short of packagers so the ones we have are already
+quite overloaded. There is a great mentoring scheme too to get you started.
+
+https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Becoming_a_Mageia_Packager
+
+I'd suggest an appeal to the wider community, there must be somebody out
+there who would like to see Unity included and is willing to get
+involved and make it happen.
+
+Maybe also try the forums and mageia-discuss mailing list too.
+
+Claire
+