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    <B>Anne Nicolas</B> 
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<PRE>Le 13/09/2012 14:02, Claire Robinson a &#233;crit :
&gt;<i> On 12/09/12 22:53, JA Magall&#243;n wrote:
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> On 09/12/2012 10:05 PM, Damian Ivanov wrote:
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> My name isDamian Ivanov. Xiao-Long Chen and me are the maintainers of
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> unity desktop environment for openSUSE and Fedora, Xiao-Long
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> additionally maintains
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> also unity on Arch Linux. We use for building the packages the open
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> build service <A HREF="https://build.opensuse.org/project/monitor?project=GNOME">https://build.opensuse.org/project/monitor?project=GNOME</A>
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> %3AAyatana
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> It actually builds install-able and usable packages for Fedora and
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> openSUSE. This week we'll give an official announcement that unity
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> works on openSUSE and will make a live CD available based on openSUSE
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> with unity. We would also like to see Mageia running unity, but this
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> would not be done by us ( I am mainly working on openSUSE, Xiao-Long
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> is working on Fedora and openSUSE). But I offer my help, if you want
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> to do it also with obs on GNOME:Ayatana. At the moment the structure
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> of a package is as follows:
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> ...
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> There are users of Mageia who would love to see it in
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> Mageia: <A HREF="https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=29&amp;t=130">https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=29&amp;t=130</A>
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> It would't need to be done that much to get it working on Mageia. The
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> spec files for openSUSE and Fedora are quite similar and based on each
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> other.
</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> I have no voice nor vote, but I really would prefer Mageia invest efforts
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> if any on integrating Cinnamon better than Unity. But that is just personal
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> stuff...
</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> Everybody has a voice and vote, it's a community :)
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> I would imagine there are members of the community out there who would
</I>&gt;<i> love to see Unity included. It only needs somebody to actually do it.
</I>&gt;<i> We're still quite short of packagers so the ones we have are already
</I>&gt;<i> quite overloaded. There is a great mentoring scheme too to get you started.
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> <A HREF="https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Becoming_a_Mageia_Packager">https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Becoming_a_Mageia_Packager</A>
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> I'd suggest an appeal to the wider community, there must be somebody out
</I>&gt;<i> there who would like to see Unity included and is willing to get
</I>&gt;<i> involved and make it happen.
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> Maybe also try the forums and mageia-discuss mailing list too.
</I>
Well mentoring is important, users also but if there are zillions 
patches on core GNOME it's another thing. And this has to be discussed here


&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> Claire
</I>

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Anne
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