[Mageia-dev] Qt-based software unusable under XFCE since almost 2 days

[Michael Scherer]

Le samedi 18 février 2012 à 10:33 +0100, Olivier Thauvin a écrit :
> * Michael Scherer (misc at zarb.org) wrote:
> > Le vendredi 17 février 2012 à 19:18 +0100, Claire Revillet a écrit :
> > > Hi,
> > 
> > > As a second point : there is still no xfce-* maintainer and as many 
> > > people are using it on cauldron and as we have bug on "Could we have 
> > > xfce directly from dvd/dual/live installation please" : it will be great 
> > > that someone grab those packages. The candidat will have all our 
> > > gratitude :) (and bug report :p )
> > 
> > If there is so much users, why is there no volunteer for taking just one
> > package ? 
> 
> Being user does not mean having knowledge to maintain it.

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 Scherer