On 18/02/12 11:55, Michael Scherer wrote:
Le samedi 18 février 2012 à 10:33 +0100, Olivier Thauvin a écrit :
* Michael Scherer (m...@zarb.org) wrote:
Le vendredi 17 février 2012 à 19:18 +0100, Claire Revillet a écrit :
Hi,
As a second point : there is still no xfce-* maintainer and as many
people are using it on cauldron and as we have bug on "Could we have
xfce directly from dvd/dual/live installation please" : it will be great
that someone grab those packages. The candidat will have all our
gratitude :) (and bug report :p )
If there is so much users, why is there no volunteer for taking just one
package ?
Being user does not mean having knowledge to maintain it.
I know at least 2 people in the packagers group who use xfce. So if they
have no knowledge for maintaining rpms ( and a dm doesn't require more
knowledge than anything else ), that would be shocking.
Anyway, if a major DE is unmaintained, maybe we should start to think
removing it until there is enough volunteer, since we do not want to
have a popular application to be crappy due to lack of maintainer. This
would be lying to user, and giving them false expectations.
Here are the xfce bugs we have (fast search for xfce or xfce4 in RPM
Package field, without enhancement requests), the oldest one dates from
July 18th:
https://bugs.mageia.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&field0-0-0=cf_rpmpkg&bug_severity=critical&bug_severity=major&bug_severity=normal&bug_severity=minor&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&type0-0-0=anywords&value0-0-0=xfce%20xfce4
