I've been avoiding checking anything into the tree so as not to interfere with the Mageia 3 release. But I've been quite busy at working on various projects to be checked in as so as Cauldron opens up. Most of them involve somewhat more than packaging since I've been sending patches upstream
The things that I've been working on are: 1) Cinnamon environment. I not only have a cinnamon environment working on my local box, but I've also created a set of packages that pull in all of the latest cinnamon themes, applets, and desklets. 2) Games: I'm tracking development for raceintospace, golly and leocad. I've also got a local package of freeorion. 3) Astronomy/Visualization: I've created packages for the top astronomy programs on sourceforge. These have either eye candy or are professional tools or both. The things that I've packaged are virtualmoonatlas, aladin, ds9 and a ton of astronomy related python scripts. I've also worked on a drop in replacement for pgplot based on plplot and a Pypi -> rpm script. I also have a local package of elmerfem working. I was going to work on paraview, and there are some install issues, and I'd like to work on ds9 first. I also have mesa working so if anyone wants to simulate a star, let me know. The problem with mesa is that theorists work mainly with source, so I've been trying to figure out the best way of packaging mesa to allow for tweaking. 4) opengl for ATI: I was working a while ago trying to get the open source GPU/glamor drivers working on the newest AMD card, but that doesn't seem that useful since AMD doesn't seem interesting in this. There are some bits and pieces in my dev box that might be useful if someone else is working on this. I'm also interested in taking requests. If there is some game or astronomy related package that you'd like to get packaged let me know. One thing that I'm looking for is some open source wargame engine (xconq is too old, lgeneral needs non-freeware files, and opengeneral is closed source). I'm also looking at openbve train simulator (getting old, and lots of mono changes needed) and rigsofrods (installation from source is complex). On the astronomy front, I'd like to get in IRAF but that's really hard to install. Also, I'm interested in knowing what sort of telescope control tools and tools amateurs are using. If I have a moment, I'll put up some screenshots with these packages working on my cinnamon desktop.
