Le 12/23/2011 03:36 AM, Klaus Knopper a écrit : > Well, from the pure logic, it would make sense to rather focus attention > and development on the package that still HAS a maintainer, wouldn't it? Well, in my mind, the idea was to replace lxpanel by lxpanelx, rename it lxpanel, merge back eventually the few bits missing, and continue the work directly on lxpanel.
> If there is really _no_ maintainer for the original LXDE lxpanel, not > much will happen if you post anything to the lxde bugtracker concerning > the currently unmaintained lxpanel, other than many people are being > frustrated because known bugs they experienced are not being fixed. But > it's not helpful to just complain, and I won't. Someone has to step in > as official maintainer sooner or later, or LXDE users/distributors will > switch to a panel package that still works with LXDE, or maintain their > own fork, collecting patches from different available resources, which > is what I guess is happening right now, since most distros do have an > lxpanel that is somewhat different from the original in a way that it, > well, works, just with less bugs. ;-) I'm agree that posting it to the bugtracker doesn't mean it's applied shortly, but it's better than nothing. Sometimes, distributions take patches from the bugtracker to include them directly. Even if there are no official maintainer, it can be maintained by the community. There are some activities recently on lxpanel, and I can spend some time to merge patches from different sources, but I need to know where are they :) > Personally, I can live with a temporarily forked lxpanel for a while, > until the maintainer problem is solved. Sorry, can't seriously volunteer > as maintainer myself. Maybe PCMan comes up with a new generation of > lxpanel with a fresh code base, and new features of lxpanelx are merged. I don't think the rewrite will be ready soon. IMO, the more efficient way is to merge actual work in one place. > Or the maintainer of lxpanelx, who I'm forwarding this mail, > spontaneously volunteers to step in as official maintainer for lxpanel? I also contacted him, to see if we can work all together. Regards, Julien Lavergne ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev _______________________________________________ Lxde-list mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list
