[Mageia-dev] Status note

Sat Jan 26 18:17:15 CET 2013

> The cinnamon conflict with gnome has been fixed in the packages I
+> have.  There is a patch that fixes the problem that I've sent
+> upstream, and I can package it locally with the patch.
+
+iinm you're still a novice packager, so ideally this should be
+doublechecked by others(mentor) and since you might have conflicts, there
+should at least be approval by the gnome packager... but well, we have
+some time for that anyway, since cauldron only reopens in april.
+
+> As far as the other packages
+>
+> peazip - I'm looking at getting that packaged.  It's pascal code, but
+> it open source pascal code that doesn't look too bad.
+>
+> energytycoon - working on that
+>
+> openra - the problem with openra is that it seems to require closed
+> source data files.  That doesn't keep us from putting it into tainted,
+> but it does put it on much lower priority.  lgeneral also has that
+> problem
+
+tainted is for patented packages.
+nonfree is for nonfree packages, or if they require nonfree files.
+
+> I've looked over the package requests.  I just submitted a few Chinese
+> fonts.  Mplayer2 looks interesting.
+>
+
+in the mean time while cauldron is version frozen. perhaps you can also
+help to fix some of the bugs (especially if they are release critical)
+
+also, keep in mind that new packagers are great, but even those need to be
+maintained (of course, this only is for full packagers, but you can ask
+your mentor to maintain them in your place and when you become full
+packager to shift them to you).
+
+