[Mageia-dev] unity on mageia

Thu Sep 13 14:05:44 CEST 2012

Le 13/09/2012 14:02, Claire Robinson a écrit :
+> 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.
+
+Well mentoring is important, users also but if there are zillions 
+patches on core GNOME it's another thing. And this has to be discussed here
+
+
+>
+> Claire
+
+
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+Anne
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