[Mageia-dev] Gnome mess in Mageia SVN...

Thu Feb 28 05:20:04 CET 2013

On 28/02/13 02:47, andre999 wrote:
+> Colin Guthrie a écrit :
+> ...
+>>
+>> I wonder how we could attract more Gnome, erm, gnomes :) to help with
+>> packaging?
+>>
+>> Col
+>>
+>
+> I'm just getting back to Mageia, after being too busy for a while and 
+> then disk crashes on 2 subsequent computers (and no, I didn't have 
+> uptodate backups) ...
+>
+> I'm very interested in helping with gnome packaging/development, since 
+> I'm a long time user of gnome.  (I still have to finish qualifying as 
+> a packager.)
+Ok awesome that you would like to help package GNOME into Mageia :)!
+>
+> BTW, I hope that mga3 sticks with 3.6, at least at first.
+There is no "at first" it is either released with 3.6.2 and stays using 
+that :( or hopefully uses the GNOME 3.8 series instead for the release :)!
+>
+> Until the "legacy" (classic/fallback) mode is stablised, and hopefully 
+> that those now using the fallback mode for hardware reasons aren't 
+> subjected to the snail pace of the current llvm emulation alternative.
+>
+I finally saw all of the video of the GNOME talk last  night that I 
+missed at FOSDEM, since ended up else where instead: 
+http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/fosdem-video/2013/maintracks/Janson/Has_the_GNOME_community_gone_crazy_.webm 
+If people watch from 29:50 the new classic mode gets mentioend again, 
+followed by how GNOME should work well enough now for most users without 
+3D acceleration as well.  Before that section is also the part about how 
+GNOME uses SystemD now to an extent, but it can work without that as well.
+
+As for llmpipe I have not had loads of slowness with it when running 
+GNOME Shell.
+
+Andre by the way in your other email to this thread your message didn't 
+seem to show.
+