Orphaning slim

Petr Sabata psabata at redhat.com
Thu Aug 26 13:29:48 UTC 2010


On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 02:21:31PM +0200, Lorenzo Villani wrote:
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> I'm orphaning the SLIM display manager because:
> - - Upstream is (mostly) dead¹;
> - - I find this software to be broken beyond relief;
> - - Up until 1.3.2 I had to maintain a huge stack of more than ten
>   patches;
> - - I'm not using it anymore;
> 
> Maintaining this package has been a frustrating experience and I'd like
> to step back.

Looks like something I've been looking for ;)
Taken. (F14 & rawhide)

> 
> If you are interested in SLIM, please step in, this package needs some love.
> 
> As for F-12 and F-13: I'm not sure if it's a good idea to orphan a
> package during a release life cycle nor I want to spend more time on it.
> New maintainers welcome.
> 
> _____________________________________________________________________
> ¹: they released a new version (1.3.2; in updates-testing now) and  they
> merged most of the patches which were floating around.
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