050106 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > The following commonbox packages need someone > to step forward as a maintainer > (as in, add themselves to metadata.xml and the commonbox herd). > If maintainers can't be found for these packages, > they will be package.masked and then removed sometime in the future. > These don't compile or don't work: > x11-misc/fluxter compiles, doesn't work > x11-misc/bbappconf duff ebuild, doesn't work > x11-misc/bbpager doesn't work
this works perfectly well on my system: i'm have it running at the moment. > x11-misc/bbppp doesn't build > x11-misc/bbsload doesn't work > x11-misc/bbmail doesn't work > > These ones no longer seem to have an active upstream: > x11-misc/bbapm upstream dead > x11-misc/bblaunch upstream removed? > x11-misc/commonbox-utils upstream dead i have this installed & have encountered no problems with it. > These ones need version bumps doing: sorry, what do you mean by "version bumps" ? > x11-misc/bbconf needs bump i have 1.10 , which gives no problems. > x11-misc/fluxspace needs bump > x11-misc/bbkeys needs bump i have 0.86 , which gives no problems. > x11-misc/bbweather needs bump > x11-misc/fbpanel needs bump > x11-misc/bbrun needs bump, url update i have 1.4 , which gives no problems. > x11-wm/blackbox needs bump i have 0.65.0-r3 , which gives no problems. version 0.70 is under active development, with rc1 expected shortly. > These ones seem to work, > but need someone who's prepared to commit themselves as being maintainer: > x11-misc/bbdate needs maintainer > x11-wm/openbox needs maintainer i'm not sure what's involved in being a maintainer, but if there's no-one else better qualified, i'm willing to volunteer to maintain those i use. you really should not assume that all apps are being developed all the time. some things are simple & just work, so no-one spends time "improving" them: that's probably the case with most of the items you list above: eg can you refer to any open bugs involving any of them ? -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto -- [email protected] mailing list
