Hmm, have you missed that there will be no Cinnamon in Mageia repos?
Part of packagers "job" is to keep eye on the dev ml.
Maybe I'll stay on for another day or so. I've been using Mageia/Mandriva for years, and so I'll keep it on my disk for another two or three days.
Let me tell you about my day. I go to work, I work for 12 hours a day. I come home. On a good day, I have maybe an hour or two to work on my hobby. I might have a few hours to work on weekends. But I have a *job* and *kids*.
I find coding relaxing. I find packaging relaxing and educational. I've actually learned a lot about rpm. I've also learned a lot about how cinnamon works.
But I have a *job*. Here I'm a volunteer. I got cinnamon working for my own
amusement. if I have to spend lots of time keeping track of e-mail discussions, then I'm just not going to have the time to do anything "real." I find coding *fun*. I find office politics and taking orders *not fun*.
And I've been quiet, because I'm a newbie. I keep my mouth shut, and watch what's going on before I say anything. If I feel like I fit in, I stay. If not, I don't.
I have a dozen or so packages in the queue. I've been working with the Fedora
to get a python to rpm conversion script working, and I have about a dozen python packages that are ready to be uploaded. I'm interested in creating a first rate platform for astronomy. I've got ds9 working. I've packaged glamor, and I've
gotten an open source ati driver working for Radeonsi. I want to start packaging heavy duty astrophysics code on Mageia.
If you find this useful. Then take it. If not, I'll find somewhere else. Say thank you
and smile at me, and I'm a sucker, and I'll keep doing it.
But remember I have a *job*. If this starts feeling like *work* then there's no reason for me to be here. I'll put up with some politics if it means getting something
useful done in the end, and I'll spend a lot of time if I learn something, but my time is precious, and I could have been spending the last hour trying to get some more themes packaged rather than writing useless e-mail (and I hate e-mail,
I get enough of this non-sense at work).
I've been using Mageia/Mandriva for years, so I'll wait a few days before wiping my disk to see how people react. I'll keep packaging and debugging stuff. I
*will* work on cinnamon, because I think it's a cool desktop. There is one major bug, that I'd like to help fix. You can't tell me to stop working on cinnamon.
You can keep cinnamon out of the distribution, but that's up to you.....
Also, in case someone wants to have a discussion rather than *ordering* me to do something....
I really don't think that cinnamon is ready for Mageia 3. There are some pretty major bugs in it, and it's not ready for prime time. It would be useful to keep it
in the testing section, and then target it for Mageia 4. I do think it would be a good idea to at least start looking at alternatives to Gnome 3 since they are self-destructing, and I've been *extremely* impressed by cinnamon (minus two
annoying bugs which I'm trying to fix).