[Mageia-dev] Status note

Sat Jan 26 12:19:22 CET 2013

On 26/01/13 05:58, Joseph Wang wrote:
+> I've been avoiding checking anything into the tree so as not to
+> interfere with the Mageia 3 release.  But I've been quite busy at
+> working on various projects to be checked in as so as Cauldron opens
+> up.  Most of them involve somewhat more than packaging since I've been
+> sending patches upstream
+>
+> The things that I've been working on are:
+>
+> 1) Cinnamon environment.  I not only have a cinnamon environment
+> working on my local box, but I've also created a set of packages that
+> pull in all of the latest cinnamon themes, applets, and desklets.
+>
+> 2) Games: I'm tracking development for raceintospace, golly and
+> leocad.  I've also got a local package of freeorion.
+>
+> 3) Astronomy/Visualization: I've created packages for the top
+> astronomy programs on sourceforge.  These have either eye candy or are
+> professional tools or both.  The things that I've packaged are
+> virtualmoonatlas, aladin, ds9 and a ton of astronomy related python
+> scripts.  I've also worked on a drop in replacement for pgplot based
+> on plplot and a Pypi ->  rpm script.  I also have a local package of
+> elmerfem working.  I was going to work on paraview, and there are some
+> install issues, and I'd like to work on ds9 first.
+>
+> I also have mesa working so if anyone wants to simulate a star, let me
+> know.  The problem with mesa is that theorists work mainly with
+> source, so I've been trying to figure out the best way of packaging
+> mesa to allow for tweaking.
+>
+> 4) opengl for ATI: I was working a while ago trying to get the open
+> source GPU/glamor drivers working on the newest AMD card, but that
+> doesn't seem that useful since AMD doesn't seem interesting in this.
+> There are some bits and pieces in my dev box that might be useful if
+> someone else is working on this.
+>
+> I'm also interested in taking requests.  If there is some game or
+> astronomy related package that you'd like to get packaged let me know.
+
+Hi Joseph,
+
+Thanks for your work!
+May I suggest you look at the new package requests on bugzilla?
+https://bugs.mageia.org/buglist.cgi?cmdtype=dorem&remaction=run&namedcmd=new%20package%20request&sharer_id=1
+
+There are almost 500 of them :-).
+
+Cheers,
+-- 
+Malo
+
+