I think that a superproject can serve as a good rubber-band grouping construct, personlaly
On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 11:19 AM, Pacho Ramos <pa...@gentoo.org> wrote: > El jue, 11-08-2016 a las 13:15 +0300, Mart Raudsepp escribió: > > [...] > > It should be kept for the purposes of coordination between different > > specific desktop projects and the grouping of them it provides as > > subprojects. > > However that doesn't mean it should have any packages in the tree > > that > > the desktop projects maintains itself personally, instead of one of > > its > > subprojects. > > > > One of my gentoo plans, when I have time, has been in reviving such > > desktop-wide coordinations, possibly under the desktop project > > banner. > > E.g my started USE=gui and toolkit threads when I had time. > > > > Frankly, it would be weird to not have a project that broadly manages > > all the desktop stuff. > > We should manage this all better under a broad desktop project that > > manages documentation, some policies, etc, but doesn't necessarily > > have > > any packages that it maintains in tree. > > > > If we need a new lead election per GLEP 39, I'm sure we have some > > volunteers from the subprojects to throw their name in, that are > > interested in having a good desktop-wide organization going on. > > Myself > > included. > > > > > > Mart > > > > Apart of me not understanding why are we reviving this that was already > discussed when killing the old freedesktop-bugs herds in favor of the > correct project, I don't think it makes sense to keep this concrete > dead project for that potential and hypothetical changes that could > benefit from it in the far future. > > Maybe when something of that is finally going to be done, we need that > project and, in that case, you will be able of course to create your > Project following the standard policy that allows to do that to any > developers. > > >
