Auke Kok wrote: > Hi, > > I just had a chat with some freedesktop.org people (Keith Packard and Bart > Massay from PSU) who were surprised to hear that Xfce wasn't accepted as a > google summer of code project. They are interested to see if Xfce may be able > to piggy back on fd.o's projects and thus enter google's summer of code. > > That basically means that all bets are on for summer of code ideas, and we > should really see if we can find overlapping area's with Xfce and fd.o > (d-bus, > d-vfs, menuspec etc etc) that are suitable projects and try to enter them > through fd.o's group. I'll try to get more information as soon as possible on > this from the people I spoke with. > > I would appreciate if people who originally had ideas or were considering > ideas in this direction brush up their ideas so I can see how we can move > forward with this - in any case I give this a rather high chance of success. > > Aside from that, I heard positive sounds of giving Xfce sort of a 'seat' on > fd.o - meaning that Xfce would be considered a source of feedback for future > freedesktop.org development initiatives and possibly other work. In all cases > this will be positive for Xfce since not only does it put Xfce on the map but > it will allow us to get some recognition for our development methods and > possibly get more say in certain development processes where we now stand on > the sideline watching.
What does that mean exactly for Xfce? > Cheers, > Auke Benedikt _______________________________________________ Thunar-dev mailing list [email protected] http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev
