Metacity and GNOME Flashback

[Michael DePaulo]

Hi Richard,

I noticed that in June you updated Metacity to 3.12.0 to Fedora. Thank
you for doing so.
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/metacity.git/log/?h=f21

As you may know, the upstream GNOME Flashback project is now
maintaining Metacity and several other components.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeFlashback

I would like to package all of GNOME Flashback and I was wondering if
you had any intention of doing so. if not, I'm curious if there is a
use case for Metacity outside of a GNOME Flashback session and if you
(or anyone else) have any advice.

The GNOME Flashback components:
gnome-applets (dead package in fedora)
gnome-flashback (not in fedora)
gnome-panel (dead package in fedora)
metacity
notification-daemon (still in fedora, but last updated 2012-09-04)

The stable release tarballs are under here:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/

And note that I have been able to run GNOME Flashback on Fedora 21 via JHBuild:
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeFlashback/JHBuild/3.16

-Mike

[Richard Hughes]

On 10 November 2014 05:22, Michael DePaulo <mikedep333(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  I would like to package all of GNOME Flashback and I was wondering
> if
>  you had any intention of doing so. if not, I'm curious if there is a
>  use case for Metacity outside of a GNOME Flashback session and if you
>  (or anyone else) have any advice. 
Not really; mclazy auto-built metacity as part of the GNOME moduleset
for a few releases. I can remove metacity from the modules.xml file if
you want to deal with this as part of the flashback thing.

Richard.

[Michael DePaulo]

Hi Everyone,

On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 4:02 AM, Richard Hughes <hughsient(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  On 10 November 2014 05:22, Michael DePaulo
> <mikedep333(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
> > I would like to package all of GNOME Flashback and I was wondering if
> > you had any intention of doing so. if not, I'm curious if there is a
> > use case for Metacity outside of a GNOME Flashback session and if you
> > (or anyone else) have any advice.
>
>  Not really; mclazy auto-built metacity as part of the GNOME moduleset
>  for a few releases. I can remove metacity from the modules.xml file if
>  you want to deal with this as part of the flashback thing.
>
>  Richard. 
Understood.

Once I make more progress with packaging, I'll probably ask you to do that.

> > The GNOME Flashback components:
> > gnome-applets (dead package in fedora)
> > gnome-flashback (not in fedora)
> > gnome-panel (dead package in fedora)
> > metacity
> > notification-daemon (still in fedora, but last updated 2012-09-04) 
Are there any instructions for (newbie) packagers on reviving dead packages?

I found instructions for orphaned packages, but not dead packages:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Orphaned_package_that_need_new_maintainers

-Mike

[Vít Ondruch]

Dne 10.11.2014 v 13:45 Michael DePaulo napsal(a):
>  Are there any instructions for (newbie) packagers on reviving dead packages?
>
>  I found instructions for orphaned packages, but not dead packages:
>  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Orphaned_package_that_need_new_maintainers
>
>  -Mike 
These are the guidelines you are looking for. They speaks also about
retired (=dead) packages, specifically this [1] section.


Vít


[1]
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Orphaned_package_that_need_new_maintainers...