Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 23:26:25 +0000 (UTC) From: Benjamin Kaduk <bjk@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r46546 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201504142326.t3ENQP1a070765@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: bjk Date: Tue Apr 14 23:26:24 2015 New Revision: 46546 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/46546 Log: Add GNOME report Approved by: hrs (mentor, implicit) Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml Tue Apr 14 23:16:07 2015 (r46545) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml Tue Apr 14 23:26:24 2015 (r46546) @@ -1419,4 +1419,60 @@ WITHOUT_FORTH=y</pre> </task> </help> </project> + + <project cat='ports'> + <title>GNOME on &os;</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name>&os; GNOME Team</name> + <email>freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="http://www.freebsd.org/gnome" /> + <url href="https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports-gnome">GNOME development repo</url> + <url href="https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Jhbuild/FreeBSD" /> + </links> + + <body> + <p>The &os; GNOME Team maintains the GNOME, MATE, and + CINNAMON desktop environments and graphical user interfaces for + &os;. GNOME 3 is part of the GNU Project. MATE is a fork of + the GNOME 2 desktop. CINNAMON is a desktop environment using + GNOME 3 technologies but with a GNOME 2 look and feel.</p> + + <p>At the end of this quarter we updated GNOME and CINNAMON + to the latest versions on their branches, 3.14 and 2.4, + respectively.</p> + + <p>GNOME 3.16 was released February 25th; we ported it to + &os;. There are still some showstopper problems that showed up. + During testing of the current versions of the 3.16 ports a bug + in pkg was uncovered in the multiple repository support, and + swiftly fixed in pkg 1.4.99.15.</p> + + <p>For the GNOME 3.18 cycle we going to work closely with + the x11 team on porting libinput and testing Wayland. When that + is done we need to see if we want to enable Wayland for our + stable releases and we probably need XWayland from + <tt>xorg-server</tt> 1.16+ to support X applications. The + estimate is that Wayland arriving in ports will have to wait + until 8.4-Release is EOL.</p> + </body> + + <help> + <task> + <p>The GNOME website is stale. Work is underway, although + slowly, on the development section. We could use some + help here.</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>MATE 1.10 porting is under way; the latest 1.9 releases + are available in the mate-1.10 branch.</p> + </task> + </help> + </project> </report>
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