Am 19.02.2012 10:35, schrieb Païou:
Michael Scherer<misc@...> writes:
I know at least 2 people in the packagers group who use xfce. So if they
have no knowledge for maintaining rpms ( and a dm doesn't require more
knowledge than anything else ), that would be shocking.
Anyway, if a major DE is unmaintained, maybe we should start to think
removing it until there is enough volunteer, since we do not want to
have a popular application to be crappy due to lack of maintainer. This
would be lying to user, and giving them false expectations.
@Michael
If you want to make the users of Mageia run away, continue on this tone!
I left Mandriva for the same reason
I don't see the reason for this answer.
Michael is just trying to make sure, we don't have a unmaintained major DE.
Now, some maybe a bit harsh words on the developer mailing list - this
is no user support list or forum or whatever - are far better, then
having something like xfce unmaintained.
After all, what makes users run away: some not all that courteous mails
on the -dev ml, whose existence they may or may not be aware of or a
perhaps buggy, not updated, unmaintained desktop?
And if we keep a whole DE unmaintained in the repos, what does that say
about overall package quality?
Oliver
