MATE 1.2

[Randall Berry]

    Hi,
 Does anyone plan to package MATE 1.2[1] for Fedora? MATE is a promising
A Gnome 2.3 fork. If so I would like to be a co-maintainer.  Or if
nobody is planning on it I'll gladly start the project with a little
help from a co-maintainer.

1) http://mate-desktop.org

Any interest please reply directly or via the list.

---
Randy Berry
dp67(a)fedoraproject.org

[Stefan Schulze Frielinghaus]

On Sat, 2012-06-02 at 10:21 -0400, Randall Berry wrote:
>   Does anyone plan to package MATE 1.2[1] for Fedora? MATE is a
> promising
>  A Gnome 2.3 fork. If so I would like to be a co-maintainer.  Or if
>  nobody is planning on it I'll gladly start the project with a little
>  help from a co-maintainer. 
I do not remember the outcome of the discussion but there was something
going on in December last year:

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2011-December/160369.html

Hope this helps,
Stefan

[Eric Smith]

Stefan Schulze Frielinghaus wrote:
>  On Sat, 2012-06-02 at 10:21 -0400, Randall Berry wrote:
> >   Does anyone plan to package MATE 1.2[1] for Fedora? MATE is a promising
> > A Gnome 2.3 fork. If so I would like to be a co-maintainer.  Or if
> > nobody is planning on it I'll gladly start the project with a little
> > help from a co-maintainer.
>  I do not remember the outcome of the discussion but there was something
>  going on in December last year:
>
>  http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2011-December/160369.html
>  
The outcome was that a bunch of people were deriding MATE and not 
wanting it in Fedora.  After some time without anyone willing to review 
the first few packages, I abandoned my effort.  At this point I do not 
have the time or energy to go back to work on it.

Eric

[Richard Körber]

>  The outcome was that a bunch of people were deriding MATE and not
>  wanting it in Fedora. 
And this is why after 12 years of Red Hat and Fedora, I'm now moving to 
Linux Mint. I know I'm going to miss yum, but at least they support 
Cinnamon and Mate.

I gave Gnome 3 a fair chance from its first release up to Fedora 17 
beta, but it still feels like doing my job in spite of the desktop. I 
wonder why Fedora is pushing Gnome 3 like that...

-- 
Regards
Richard

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 06/04/2012 02:23 PM, Richard Körber wrote:
>  
> > The outcome was that a bunch of people were deriding MATE and not
> > wanting it in Fedora.
>  
>  And this is why after 12 years of Red Hat and Fedora, I'm now moving to
>  Linux Mint. I know I'm going to miss yum, but at least they support
>  Cinnamon and Mate.
>  
>  I gave Gnome 3 a fair chance from its first release up to Fedora 17
>  beta, but it still feels like doing my job in spite of the desktop. I
>  wonder why Fedora is pushing Gnome 3 like that... 
Fedora has invested a lot on infrastructure that supports other desktop
environments including spins.fedoraproject.org and Fedora includes KDE,
Xfce etc and Cinnamon is under review at
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=771252.  There were genuine
concerns about the maintenability of MATE and that has nothing to do
with pushing GNOME or whatever else.

Rahul

[Richard Körber]

>  and Cinnamon is under review at
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=771252. 
Yes, it's under review for 6 months now... :(

I have the impression that the criticism about Gnome 3 isn't taken very
seriously. Neither from the Gnome nor from the Fedora developers. It's just
frustrating...

-- 
Regards
Richard Körber

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 06/05/2012 12:26 AM, Richard Körber wrote:
>  
> > and Cinnamon is under review at
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=771252.
>  
>  Yes, it's under review for 6 months now... :( 
So help out if you can.  Going on a rant isn't going to contribute
towards that.

Rahul

[Adam Williamson]

On Mon, 2012-06-04 at 20:56 +0200, Richard Körber wrote:
>  > and Cinnamon is under review at
>  > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=771252.
>  
>  Yes, it's under review for 6 months now... :( 
If you read the history, you can see why. Implementing an entire desktop
environment in line with Fedora policies isn't trivial. The review is
active and clearly working towards a conclusion...it's not as if anyone
is stalling.
-- 
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora
http://www.happyassassin.net

[Kevin Kofler]

Richard Körber wrote:
>  Yes, [Cinnamon]'s under review for 6 months now... :( 
It's available from repos.fedorapeople.org though:
http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/leigh123linux/cinnamon/

        Kevin Kofler