On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> wrote: > What did I say which in any way referenced RHEL7? We are running Fedora on our > support machines (not the servers) and my question was pretty specific as to > FC17 being the issue, so we can get off FC14. Sorry, I thought you were talking about RHEL in that paragraph. > I take it that "feel free to do it yourself" is a polite way of saying no, I > can't imagine anyone here doing the port with no assurance that it would be > accepted. No, it's the polite way of saying "feel free to do it yourself, as that's the only way anything gets done in a volunteer project". The only two issues I'm aware of with packaging a GNOME 2 fork for Fedora are: - Infringement of GNOME Foundation trademarks. - Compatibility with the GNOME 3 stack in Fedora. (ensuring that it doesn't trample on it, etc.) MATE appears to take care of both of those issues, though admittedly I haven't looked at it thoroughly. The only things required to get something into Fedora are: - a suitable RPM package pursuant to the Packaging Guidelines [1] This should be really easy, as the F14 RPMs should be able to be used as a starting point with minimal changes (changing the name, tarball location, etc.). - a packager willing to do the work to rename and convert the old GNOME 2 RPMS to FATE and submit them for inclusion - a sponsor willing to review it and assist the new maintainer Given the amount of griping GNOME 3 has evoked on this and other Fedora lists, it shouldn't be difficult to find others interested in helping with a well-maintained GNOME 2 fork. MGSEs would be even easier as there are already lots of GNOME Shell extensions in the repo, and they're just bits of Javascript that should be simple to package. -T.C. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
