Orphaning Unity bits: bamf, compiz-plugins-main, dee, libindicator

[Adam Williamson]

I currently own a few packages related to my old abortive attempt to
build Unity for Fedora. I don't have time to maintain these or any
direct interest in them - they were just Unity building blocks to me.
I'm orphaning these packages:

bamf
compiz-plugins-main (for f16 only)
dee
libindicator

Only one package depends on any of these: gwibber depends on dee. So
someone interested in gwibber might want to pick up dee. It's not a
difficult package to maintain, but I don't have any real interest in it.
Other than that, I don't see that there's any reason anyone would want
to pick these up, but maybe someone does. compiz itself was retired some
time back - I should have orphaned compiz-plugins-main at the same time,
but never did. I don't recall how I wound up owning it. It only appears
to be 'alive' for F16 anyhow.
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[Damian Ivanov]

And whoever want to install unity or these packages, can just use
GNOME:Ayatana from the open build service :)

regards,
Damian

2012/11/1 Adam Williamson <awilliam(a)redhat.com&gt;:
>  I currently own a few packages related to my old abortive attempt to
>  build Unity for Fedora. I don't have time to maintain these or any
>  direct interest in them - they were just Unity building blocks to me.
>  I'm orphaning these packages:
>
>  bamf
>  compiz-plugins-main (for f16 only)
>  dee
>  libindicator
>
>  Only one package depends on any of these: gwibber depends on dee. So
>  someone interested in gwibber might want to pick up dee. It's not a
>  difficult package to maintain, but I don't have any real interest in it.
>  Other than that, I don't see that there's any reason anyone would want
>  to pick these up, but maybe someone does. compiz itself was retired some
>  time back - I should have orphaned compiz-plugins-main at the same time,
>  but never did. I don't recall how I wound up owning it. It only appears
>  to be 'alive' for F16 anyhow.
>  --
>  Adam Williamson
>  Fedora QA Community Monkey
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[Rahul Sundaram]

On 11/01/2012 06:06 PM, Damian Ivanov wrote:
>  And whoever want to install unity or these packages, can just use
>  GNOME:Ayatana from the open build service :) 
Unfortunately that replaces many important components with forked
versions.  If it was a pure add-on repository, that would be ok.

Rahul

[Tom Callaway]

On 10/31/2012 08:24 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
>  Only one package depends on any of these: gwibber depends on dee. So
>  someone interested in gwibber might want to pick up dee. 
I'll take dee, although, gwibber will never progress past 3.6, because
the upstream (Canonical) plan is to convert gwibber into a "friends"
client (https://launchpad.net/friends), and I don't think that will
likely end up in Fedora.

~tom

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Fedora Project

[Peter Robinson]

On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Tom Callaway <tcallawa(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:

>  On 10/31/2012 08:24 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
>  > Only one package depends on any of these: gwibber depends on dee. So
>  > someone interested in gwibber might want to pick up dee.
>
>  I'll take dee, although, gwibber will never progress past 3.6, because
>  the upstream (Canonical) plan is to convert gwibber into a "friends"
>  client (https://launchpad.net/friends), and I don't think that will
>  likely end up in Fedora.
>  
Someone writing a frontend to libsocialweb would likely provide equivalent
functionality to gwibber and libsocialweb already is integrated into things
like gnome-online-accounts so it could be relatively straight forward.

Peter

[Tom Callaway]

On 11/01/2012 09:22 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:
>  
>  
>  
>  On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Tom Callaway <tcallawa(a)redhat.com
>  <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
>  
>      On 10/31/2012 08:24 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
>      > Only one package depends on any of these: gwibber depends on dee. So
>      > someone interested in gwibber might want to pick up dee.
>  
>      I'll take dee, although, gwibber will never progress past 3.6, because
>      the upstream (Canonical) plan is to convert gwibber into a "friends"
>      client (https://launchpad.net/friends), and I don't think that will
>      likely end up in Fedora.
>  
>  
>  Someone writing a frontend to libsocialweb would likely provide
>  equivalent functionality to gwibber and libsocialweb already is
>  integrated into things like gnome-online-accounts so it could be
>  relatively straight forward. 
I talked to gwibber upstream and they do not plan to ever support GOA.

~tom

==
Fedora Project

[Peter Robinson]

On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Tom Callaway <tcallawa(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:

>  On 11/01/2012 09:22 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Tom Callaway <tcallawa(a)redhat.com
>  > <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
>  >
>  >     On 10/31/2012 08:24 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
>  >     > Only one package depends on any of these: gwibber depends on dee.
>  So
>  >     > someone interested in gwibber might want to pick up dee.
>  >
>  >     I'll take dee, although, gwibber will never progress past 3.6,
>  because
>  >     the upstream (Canonical) plan is to convert gwibber into a "friends"
>  >     client (https://launchpad.net/friends), and I don't think that will
>  >     likely end up in Fedora.
>  >
>  >
>  > Someone writing a frontend to libsocialweb would likely provide
>  > equivalent functionality to gwibber and libsocialweb already is
>  > integrated into things like gnome-online-accounts so it could be
>  > relatively straight forward.
>
>  I talked to gwibber upstream and they do not plan to ever support GOA.
>  
I wasn't referring to gwibber at all, I was referring to writing a GUI for
libraries we already have to replace the functionality that gwibber
provides.

Peter

[Jaroslav Reznik]

----- Original Message -----
>  I currently own a few packages related to my old abortive attempt to
>  build Unity for Fedora. I don't have time to maintain these or any
>  direct interest in them - they were just Unity building blocks to me.
>  I'm orphaning these packages:
>  
>  bamf
>  compiz-plugins-main (for f16 only)
>  dee
>  libindicator 
For bamf and dee there are also -qt wrappers - so if anyone wants them...

These are leftovers after my Unity 2D attempts...

dee-qt actually never was built...

Jaroslav 

>  Only one package depends on any of these: gwibber depends on dee. So
>  someone interested in gwibber might want to pick up dee. It's not a
>  difficult package to maintain, but I don't have any real interest in
>  it.
>  Other than that, I don't see that there's any reason anyone would
>  want
>  to pick these up, but maybe someone does. compiz itself was retired
>  some
>  time back - I should have orphaned compiz-plugins-main at the same
>  time,
>  but never did. I don't recall how I wound up owning it. It only
>  appears
>  to be 'alive' for F16 anyhow.
>  --
>  Adam Williamson
>  Fedora QA Community Monkey
>  IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora
>  http://www.happyassassin.net
>  
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