Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 15:41:16 +0000 (UTC) From: Gabor Pali <pgj@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r44486 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201404081541.s38FfGrv081326@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: pgj Date: Tue Apr 8 15:41:16 2014 New Revision: 44486 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/44486 Log: - Add 2014Q1 status report the GNOME ports Submitted by: kwm Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml Tue Apr 8 15:18:09 2014 (r44485) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml Tue Apr 8 15:41:16 2014 (r44486) @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ <!-- XXX: Keep the number of entries updated --> <p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report - contains 30 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p> + contains 31 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p> <p>The deadline for submissions covering between April and June 2014 is July 7th, 2014.</p> @@ -1898,4 +1898,76 @@ device vt_efifb</pre> and receiving data, network scanning and so on.</task> </help> </project> + + <project cat='ports'> + <title>GNOME/&os;</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>&os; GNOME Team</given> + </name> + <email>gnome@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="http://www.freebsd.org/gnome">GNOME &os; page</url> + <url href="https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Jhbuild/FreeBSD">JHbuild info and results</url> + <url href="https://github.com/jlmess77/mate-ports">MATE staging repository (might break)</url> + <url href="http://marcuscom.com/downloads/marcusmerge">GNOME staging repository (might break)</url> + </links> + + <body> + <p>GNOME is a desktop environment and graphical user interface + that runs on top of a computer operating system. GNOME is part + of the GNU Project and can be used with various Unix-like + operating systems, including &os;.</p> + + <p>Preperations for merging GNOME 3 are moving forward. The + work on the documentation is falling behind a bit, but we got + some solid feedback on the rough work to keep this moving + forward as well. In the meantime, deprecation of ports that + need the old GNOME 2 desktop ports has begun. These ports + will break when the GNOME desktop components are updated to the + GNOME 3 version.</p> + + <p>Thanks to a combined effort by Ryan Lortie (GNOME developer), + Ting-Wei Lan (upstream contributor), and &a.kwm;, we now have a + &os;-powered JHbuild tinderbox. JHbuild is a build system that + lets building GNOME upstream code. It will attempt twice a day + to build gnome components from a specific branch, which is the + git master branch most of the time, in order to catch compile + issues. A positive side effect of this is that it lets upstream + know GNOME still lives on other systems than Linux. It also + exposes the GNOME code base to the Clang compiler and + <tt>libc++</tt>. Since the start of this project over a hundred + issues have been fixed.</p> + + <p>Gustau Perez has stepped up and put together a port set in the + <q>ports-experimental</q> tree of our developement repository + with GNOME 3.12. It was decided to polish GNOME 3.12. It will + be merged when the preparation work has (mostly) finished, and + we are happy with the stability of GNOME 3.12.</p> + + <p>Gustau Perez also ported Cinnamon 2.0 to &os;. It will appear + in the Ports Collection after GNOME 3 has been merged.</p> + + <p>MATE 1.8 was released at the beginning of April, Eric Turgeon + of GhostBSD is volunteered to do that update for &os;. Note + that this update is still based on GTK+, version 2. The + GTK+ 3-based MATE is on the roadmap for 1.10.</p> + </body> + + <help> + <task>Finish the work needed to be done before GNOME 3 can be + merged at all. Documentation work, port deprecation, and so + on.</task> + + <task>Finish porting of MATE 1.8.</task> + + <task>Update Cairo to 1.12 in coordination with the Graphics + Team.</task> + </help> + </project> </report>
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