Good Morning, Anyone interested in taking over maintainership of glabels and istanbul? In just under a month I will be moving to Alaska and I will be without residential broadband for the foreseeable future. Whats worse is the new place of employment which does have band is currently an all windows shop (something I'll fix in a finite amount of time), making a tad more difficult to sneak in a few minutes of fedora related moonlighting, until I'm there long to resuscitate some decommissioned desktops into Linux machines. So both of these packages will be effectively orphaned unless someone else becomes the primary maintainer. glabels in fedora extras is currently tracking the stable glabels branch, and its pretty straight forward. Just get on the low traffic upstream glabels mailinglist and watch for any "stable" release announcements or upstream bugs. Istanbul will require more work at some point. Fedora's Istanbul is still using gstreamer08, and the version of Instanbul in cvs is ported to gstreamer-0.10. BUT the X display grabbing gstreamer module that cvs Istanbul relies on isn't in gstreamer-bad, which fedora isn't going to ship. Moving fedora-extras-development to the gst 0.10 based Istanbul, will have to wait for the module to move over to gstreamer-good and for that new release of gstreamer-good to be dropped into Core. You'll have to watch the gstreamer plugins release announcements and watch the changes in istanbul cvs to see when the pieces fall into place. This burned me leading up to fc5, I didn't realize that the required gst plugin was placed in the gstreamer-bad pile. There is also the chance to build the current gst08 based istanbul for FC4. Last time I checked the needed FC4 gsteamer-plugins package was in FC4 updates-testing. IF that has moved over to updates-released istanbul can be built for FE4. Istanbul is a very thin layer of python gui over gstreamer's inherent pipelining functionality. The real magic (or lack there of) is at the gstreamer plugin level. Any takers? -jef"I hope its not cold in Alaska"spaleta -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
