Looking for xorg-x11-* package co-maintainers

Hans de Goede hdegoede at redhat.com
Wed Oct 22 13:48:18 UTC 2014


Hi,

On 10/22/2014 01:59 PM, Matthieu Gautier wrote:
> Le 22/10/2014 11:25, Hans de Goede a écrit :
>> Hi All,
>>
>> As you probably know the graphics team always has more work to do
>> then we've manpower.
>>
>> As the person taking care of various old xor-x11 apps / utilities
>> and utility libraries I'm looking for co-maintainers to help with
>> maintaining these.
>>
>> You do not need to be a hardcore X hacker to help here. 2 things
>> with which I really could use help is keeping all the various bits
>> and pieces up2date with upstream releases, and taking care of
>> simple (packaging) bugs were possible.
>>
>> To give you an idea, currently I've this list of packages which
>> still need to be synced with upstream for rawhide and Fedora-21 :
>>
>>  -xcb-proto 1.11
>>  -libxcb 1.11
>>  -xrandr 1.4.3
>>  -libXfont 1.5.0
>>  -twm-1.0.8
>>  -imake 1.0.7, gccmakedep 1.0.3 (imake)
>>  -libICE 1.0.9
>>  -libXft 2.3.2
>>  -intel-gpu-tools 1.8
>>  -xkeyboard-config 2.13
>>  -xcb-util 0.4.0
>>
>> Note these are the upstream package names, the Fedora package
>> names are not always the same. Also in some cases someone else
>> may have updated them since I noticed that they were out of date,
>> I've not rechecked the list recently.
>>
>> If you want to help out with maintaining these, please let me
>> know!
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm not a packager but I'm interesting in helping.
> I'm not fully aware of all "rules" but I'm ready to learn :)

Sorry, but I don't think that the xorg packages are a good place
to start packaging.

Regards,

Hans


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