Ubuntu Unity has been ported to Fedora 17

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 21:58 +0100, Nelson Marques wrote:
> 2012/7/19 Jef Spaleta <jspaleta at gmail.com>:
> > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Nelson Marques <nmo.marques at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I've asked Ken to provide me some additional info on this; I will mail
> >> tomorrow or during the weekend the links to this list.
> >
> > Let's get an accurate picture of what is actually left for vendor
> > patches before we decide the current situation is a non-starter. And
> > then try to categorize them as critical or not. End of the day, a
> > compromise will most likely have to be made with some non-critical
> > patches not being included, with Fedora's version of Unity being less
> > capable than Ubuntu's Unity desktop until the patches can be
> > refactored in a way that they are upstreamable.  I'm willing to help
> > where I can with any changes that lead to submittable packages.
> 
> I'm not involved in this project anyway; If this is going forward, I
> don't mind co-maintaining a few packages, I would prefer the indicator
> stack as it's the components I know better. Either way my
> interventions were not meant to promote this initiative or to bash it.
> I've only tried to share a few issues I found in the past, though I'm
> willing to help co-maintaining a 'few' packages, not the whole stack,
> I don't have time for it.

Note for the record - I'm perfectly willing to give up my maintainership
of the few packages I own from my old abortive effort to package Unity.
I have bamf, libindicator and probably one or two others I forgot about.
If anyone wants these, just ping me.
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