-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 07/02/2015 12:40 PM, NP-Hardass wrote: > Greetings all, > > Looking for some feedback on creating a new project and herd for > the MATE Desktop environment. The goal, like many other DE based > projects, is to provide up to date packaging and as complete an > offering of the DE's packages as possible. > > Currently, the packages of the MATE Desktop DE are listed as > maintained by TomWij (who is on long term devaway). Prior to > acceptance into the Gentoo repo, it was worked on by lxnay and > steev. All 3 have either not responded to inquiries, or have > expressed limited interest in maintaining the DE. As a result, I > felt the best way to support users was to move support of MATE away > from any individual, and create a project and associated herd to > manage the packages, thus allowing any developer that is interested > in helping out an easy means of doing so. > > I've created a prospective Wiki project page: > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:MATE and intend to have a > mail alias, m...@gentoo.org, and an email channel for Gentoo > support and development, #gentoo-mate. > > Any feedback regarding the aforementioned would be greatly > appreciated. > >
The wiki page says "Gentoo Gnome Project" in the description. Typo? I also think you mean an IRC channel, not an e-mail channel. Nitpicks aside, I think it's an overdue change. Each DE should have a project attached to it IMO. - -- Daniel Campbell OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIbBAEBCAAGBQJVlknFAAoJEAEkDpRQOeFwjIMP9AuYaBTgP96q93iwCjUyjrPz M+j9jXUWtJixNFs0iNTfivTeVLtggTQExVSmTUfodxZYKEl1RqYPktaUS6R4QUct 8kZz+7FRbPBElaGOUTcQR9OLrVhkClrnV8FLPCsviJFDTwQQZeDw8GSKLUDuFoet 7saDfVUi9RIs1FztkjWNDeB3Oj1mmuJ+xUFkcD92elMQxTw9hEkItvuwbuIDNARF k1NTTIGZk8yBBsGRB58SIhOjrY6i4vG+MTlQUED+rXgikFWN8SI7jNqhO0908ps9 uIk7P5C+CH9U57WpE9kO8p79i7+6UmL2xwiRfVTtSHvBsDtY/a0alEyRHvdEvcwS ffQKzj22KW2ybBRc0o2IZlA5TGeXR5JRmki87FpQ3Yvc9pwkyfKFe8qmQSAcbqeS FTyiK/ReTL4nRxtP7qU1P6xj6pvQGE/5UIwc3D25oQNKOrCx86rTpJeXtuIH7CaQ UYE3/lplCHxZx7HaOViVjWF3vFTRSf7b/UELhIb8/ZaTBtV9WFG/sIjjphZ2dRss 4DPcjiTCeIqqhn6ka7tWuoRbi3DjmiCpFYXZPctQ6jsxRqbG0MjBjrC3iYSVXOCl sz/5TUvnJg487EIEIG4gYUX9kdYJllaLCB7nK7cj9KuLnmxaTvDtVMEr4Jfjqx9d 94g0WtTqih+CBsgWA3Q= =Nqnd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
