Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 21:16:52 -0400 From: matt donovan <kitchetech@gmail.com> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@telenix.org> Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org>, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: State of the FreeBSD GNOME Project Message-ID: <28283d910903291816r2b2f2503h5241f987ef6bcebd@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <49CFEF9C.7000003@telenix.org> References: <1238352818.73736.161.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <49CFEF9C.7000003@telenix.org>
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On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Chuck Robey <chuckr@telenix.org> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > As some of you may have already figured out, the news is not good. The > > number of active team members has dwindled due to various Real Life time > > constraints. Even my own time is becoming strained due to obligations > > at work. We find ourselves facing a rise in difficulty when it comes to > > porting GNOME. Hal is being replaced in part by DeviceKit which is > > currently very Linux-specific. Hal itself needs some updates. The > > system tools don't really work on FreeBSD. We could use a > > NetworkManager port (may happen in this SoC go around). > > > > We're also spread pretty thin when it comes to expertise in the number > > of ports we maintain. While we require a working Gecko backend, none of > > us have the desire or drive to maintain the various ports. We > > desperately need help. We need people to step up, and start working on > > ports and helping with development branch porting. But more > > importantly, we need people to take the reins on "hard" projects like > > those listed above. If GNOME is to survive on FreeBSD, we need new > > blood. > > > > So here's the short list. What do you want to do? > > > > * Help port GNOME 2.27 and its external dependencies (when GNOME 2.27 > > development starts) > > > > * Port and maintain DeviceKit and DeviceKit-power > > > > * Fix and maintain sysutils/system-tools-backends > > > > * Add kern.geom.confxml support to hal to fix the > > no-space-in-volume-label problem > > > > * Assume maintainership of Gecko ports > > > > * Make libxul (aka xulrunner-1.9) work for building ports like epiphany > > and yelp > > > > Joe > > 2 items affect me, in contributing to ports: > > (1) there seems to be no list of ports to do, and no signup list for those > ports. This is 2 things, the list, and being able to reserve the work. If > it > DOES exist, could someone point me at it? > > (2) I have longstanding philosophical problems with the direction of ports, > which (while it stops me from wanting to write any more ports) it wouldn't > stop > me from making a set of diffs that would make the building of a port a lot > more > painless. Would this be of help? I could supply the non-ports part (any > diffs > I needed to make) if someone else would care to do the ports Makefile > parts. I > just don't want to actually code up FreeBSD ports again, but I think that > both > the KDE and Gnome work you guys do is very impressive. > > Understand, I don't want to bend anyone's ear about my disagreements with > Ports > (I was able to do that to my complete satisfaction some years ago, since > everyone was so polite and reasonable, to let me get my opinions across > then, I > feel bound never to raise the subject again.) I just needed to make clear > the > reason why I won't make ports anymore, so I could maybe get a chance to > help you > folks without violating my own rules. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iEYEARECAAYFAknP75wACgkQz62J6PPcoOmhKgCfSbvroYxcx+XcIest5ExWA5q5 > 0lcAoJ4vBXj7g7232eENcfpdUqg13lBF > =NRor > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-gnome-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Well since Firefox3 is not a gecko port really. At least it does not run off of a gecko engine really I could update the firefox-devel ports or even firefox3 port but seems to me the firefox3 as a maintainer from what I have seen just that the firefox-devel port needs a maintainer and sicne I use firefox-devel already I could take that over if someone wishes.
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