On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 04:51:35PM +0000, Debarshi Ray wrote: > Hey, > > I have been thinking of retiring xchat from Fedora, and let hexchat > take over as its natural replacement. Historically, xchat has been quite > popular, so I thought I'd mention it here before removing it from the > distribution. > > XChat is dead [1] and the last upstream release was seven years ago > [2]. On the other hand, HexChat [3] has been a part of Fedora for the > last four years, upstream [4] (CCed) is involved in both the Fedora > and GNOME communties, and I learnt that the MATE spin already ships it > by default. > > What do you think? > > Cheers, > Rishi > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XChat > [2] http://xchat.org/ > [3] https://hexchat.github.io/ > [4] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Tingping Questions about the UI notwithstanding, +1 from me. By the way, Matthias asked whether we needed this in a WG meeting, but I'd propose that if enough of the WG members +1 here, then we can consider the proposal accepted and make changes. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ The open source story continues to grow: http://opensource.com _______________________________________________ desktop mailing list -- desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to desktop-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
