On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 03:57:02PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > Hi Spot, > > >>> After requesting status updates, including direct email to the feature > >>> > owners, the following feature pages do not have a current status or their > >>> > ability to tested during the Alpha is unclear based on the lack of > >>> > information provided or percentage of completion. > >>> > > >>> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/FedoraMoblin > >> I'm the maintainer of this. I think its very much in a similar > >> category to gnome/kde. The only difference is there is some packages > >> still awaiting review, about 2 that are actually critical, but moblin > >> 2 like gnome etc are still in there development phase so its a moving > >> target. > > > > I'm concerned about FESCo's decision to drop this feature for Fedora 12. > > The more that I think about this, the more I agree with what Peter has > > written above. I think that Moblin support in Fedora is something that > > is useful to a wide audience of users, and that Peter has made every > > effort to address the concerns raised by FESCo. I do not think it is > > necessary for a spin to be made available to consider this a noteworthy > > feature. > > > > I've asked FESCo to reconsider the Moblin feature at their meeting on > > Friday, and I hope they will reconsider their decision. > > Thanks for the support. > > I've since moved my plan to do a remix for F-12 instead and reconsider > it again for F-13. The core of moblin would still be in Fedora anyway > for people to install as they see fit and the advantage of the respin > is that I can patch up xulrunner and hence include a working browser. > Either way I'm just continuing on working towards it to see where I > can get to. Its still somewhat of a moving target as they've just > split out one of the packages into a number of smaller ones. I'm not sure if this would make sense from your perspective Peter, but is it worthwhile to have a Moblin component in the comps file that delivers some set of packages (albeit without a browser, given what you mentioned above), and re-scope the F12 feature to that end? -- 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/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
