On Thu, 2016-07-21 at 14:20 +0100, Ikey Doherty wrote: > > On 21/07/16 14:03, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > On Thu, 2016-07-21 at 13:42 +0100, Ikey Doherty wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > So Jeremy Bicha kindly contacted me the other day to express > > > concern > > > with Budgie/GNOME Screensaver. I had been toying with the notion > > > of > > > forking GNOME Screensaver due to its deadness, and making it work > > > better for Budgie/Modern GNOME integration. > > > > > > Jeremy correctly pointed out it might be worth maintaining the > > > project instead, which I'm up for. > > > > You should really rename it. The gnome-screensaver product in > > Bugzilla > > is closed, so that screensaver related bugs don't end up there even > > though we (GNOME) don't use it anymore. > > > > gnome-flashback-screensaver, if gnome-flashback folks want to use > > it, > > would be fine. Otherwise, a completely different name would be > > better. > > Interesting. So up or down a fork is the only way to go here? If so > perhaps the burden on GNOME would be less if this was done > externally, > given the project is entirely closed within GNOME now.
Not so much a fork as a name change. You can keep all the git history, which will probably prove useful in the longer term. It would probably be fine to keep it in the GNOME git as well. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
