From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 30 22:40:35 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51593106566C; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:40:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from eastrmmtao104.cox.net (eastrmmtao104.cox.net [68.230.240.46]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFD0A8FC1A; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:40:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from eastrmimpo01.cox.net ([68.1.16.119]) by eastrmmtao104.cox.net (InterMail vM.7.08.02.01 201-2186-121-102-20070209) with ESMTP id <20090330224034.NOMJ12725.eastrmmtao104.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net>; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:40:34 -0400 Received: from localhost ([68.103.37.153]) by eastrmimpo01.cox.net with bizsmtp id ZagZ1b00P3JFCbG02agZZ9; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:40:34 -0400 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=EU9b0bbnY98A:10 a=6I5d2MoRAAAA:8 a=kviXuzpPAAAA:8 a=dt8JTx2Bjynwcb9C27UA:9 a=rkpqyIlJ-yza_UMHXmkA:7 a=5QwovWW-KMUlUwyeJok_hlz2_dkA:4 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 a=SV7veod9ZcQA:10 a=4vB-4DCPJfMA:10 a=uYck30khPO_i7euS:21 a=mC0xrKMIgd3Nt-8_:21 X-CM-Score: 0.00 Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:41:23 -0600 To: "Joe Marcus Clarke" From: "Jeremy Messenger" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=utf-8 MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1238352818.73736.161.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1238352818.73736.161.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.64 (Linux) Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users Subject: Re: State of the FreeBSD GNOME Project X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:40:35 -0000 On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 12:53:38 -0600, Joe Marcus Clarke 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