Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:41:23 -0600 From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net> To: "Joe Marcus Clarke" <marcus@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: State of the FreeBSD GNOME Project Message-ID: <op.urmmnxme9aq2h7@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1238352818.73736.161.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <1238352818.73736.161.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 12:53:38 -0600, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> wrote: > As some of you may have already figured out, the news is not good. The > number of active team members has dwindled due to various Real Life time > constraints. Even my own time is becoming strained due to obligations > at work. We find ourselves facing a rise in difficulty when it comes to > porting GNOME. Hal is being replaced in part by DeviceKit which is > currently very Linux-specific. Hal itself needs some updates. The > system tools don't really work on FreeBSD. We could use a > NetworkManager port (may happen in this SoC go around). > > We're also spread pretty thin when it comes to expertise in the number > of ports we maintain. While we require a working Gecko backend, none of > us have the desire or drive to maintain the various ports. We > desperately need help. We need people to step up, and start working on > ports and helping with development branch porting. But more > importantly, we need people to take the reins on "hard" projects like > those listed above. If GNOME is to survive on FreeBSD, we need new > blood. > > So here's the short list. What do you want to do? > > * Help port GNOME 2.27 and its external dependencies (when GNOME 2.27 > development starts) > > * Port and maintain DeviceKit and DeviceKit-power By the way, the DeviceKit is probably the most important that need to be port. We already find ourselves to not able to update the gnome-power-manager in 2.26, because it required DeviceKit. Fear probably more in GNOME 2.28+ for require DeviceKit. Cheers, Mezz > * Fix and maintain sysutils/system-tools-backends > > * Add kern.geom.confxml support to hal to fix the > no-space-in-volume-label problem > > * Assume maintainership of Gecko ports > > * Make libxul (aka xulrunner-1.9) work for building ports like epiphany > and yelp > > Joe -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org
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