[Mageia-dev] Qt-based software unusable under XFCE since almost 2 days

[Marja van Waes]

On 18/02/12 11:55, Michael Scherer wrote:
> Le samedi 18 février 2012 à 10:33 +0100, Olivier Thauvin a écrit :
>> * Michael Scherer (misc at zarb.org) wrote:
>>> Le vendredi 17 février 2012 à 19:18 +0100, Claire Revillet a écrit :
>>>> Hi,
>>>> As a second point : there is still no xfce-* maintainer and as many
>>>> people are using it on cauldron and as we have bug on "Could we have
>>>> xfce directly from dvd/dual/live installation please" : it will be great
>>>> that someone grab those packages. The candidat will have all our
>>>> gratitude :) (and bug report :p )
>>> If there is so much users, why is there no volunteer for taking just one
>>> package ?
>> Being user does not mean having knowledge to maintain it.
> I know at least 2 people in the packagers group who use xfce. So if they
> have no knowledge for maintaining rpms ( and a dm doesn't require more
> knowledge than anything else ), that would be shocking.
>
> Anyway, if a major DE is unmaintained, maybe we should start to think
> removing it until there is enough volunteer, since we do not want to
> have a popular application to be crappy due to lack of maintainer. This
> would be lying to user, and giving them false expectations.
>
Here are the xfce bugs we have (fast search for xfce or xfce4 in RPM 
Package field, without enhancement requests), the oldest one dates from 
July 18th:

https://bugs.mageia.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&field0-0-0=cf_rpmpkg&bug_severity=critical&bug_severity=major&bug_severity=normal&bug_severity=minor&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&type0-0-0=anywords&value0-0-0=xfce%20xfce4