Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 21:57:10 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> To: Tom McLaughlin <tmclaugh@sdf.lonestar.org> Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: RFC: Restructuring GNOME meta-ports Message-ID: <1073357830.43391.8.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <1073350408.681.22.camel@compass> References: <1073346203.765.210.camel@gyros> <1073350408.681.22.camel@compass>
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--=-N1pG9cXFzONp+Z9lq7xq Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 19:53, Tom McLaughlin wrote: > On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 18:43, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > I was thinking maybe we should borrow something from garnome seeing as > > since they've borrowed practically everything from us already ;-) (the > > ports system, that is). What if we restructured the GNOME meta-ports t= o > > look something like this: > >=20 > ><snip> > >=20 > > Thoughts? > >=20 > > Joe >=20 > This is a great idea Joe. Is this an attempt to give the FreeBSD gnome > people a "distributor" role as linux distros do while the gnome people > debate what should be included in the gnome core as well as what can be > actively supported by them? Kind of. It's an attempt to fill a big gap that has only recently become apparent to me. That is what you describe below, and what I have learned by listening to desktop-devel-list@: the GNOME Desktop is not a complete Desktop Environment. > Coming recently from linux to FreeBSD this > is something that I miss with my desktop since many of the apps I've > come to know and use came about based on what was in the gnome start bar > or by word of mouth. Being a part of the real world now puts a serious > dent in the amount of time I have to scour freshmeat or the ports > collection for that apps I never knew I needed or never knew existed. I > only discovered rhythmbox a few weeks ago because I was checking out > someone's desktop screenshots for s+g. Exactly! Users don't know what apps work well with GNOME. The Fifth Toe was good, but it turned out to be a dumping ground for all kinds of apps, most of which are never used by anyone. What I would like to accomplish with this split is to create some more specialized groupings of GNOME apps that are more useful to a broader base of users. I used the successful garnome (http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/garnome/) project as a model for this. Of course, we are not tied to their choices,but it is a good starting point. >=20 > How open would the meta-ports be for change? As new programs arise and > others mature, would requests for removals or additions be considered > based on list reaction and what the maintainers feel appropriate?=20 > Thanks. We would evaluate them based on functionality, stability, and usefulness, and decide in which group they best fit. We need not be slaves to the applications' maintainers, but only to what we feel is right for our (FreeBSD's) users. Joe >=20 > Tom --=20 Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome --=-N1pG9cXFzONp+Z9lq7xq Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA/+iQGb2iPiv4Uz4cRAvxDAJ9cLVWLUyeM+9hJxB8+oMXxYmohZACdE0Mh 6fA9fi/aU9K+hCJJtYjegpc= =/MDl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-N1pG9cXFzONp+Z9lq7xq--
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