[Mageia-dev] unity on mageia

[Claire Robinson]

On 12/09/12 22:53, JA Magallón wrote:
> On 09/12/2012 10:05 PM, Damian Ivanov wrote:
>>>>
>>>> My name isDamian Ivanov. Xiao-Long Chen and me are the maintainers of
>>>> unity desktop environment for openSUSE and Fedora, Xiao-Long
>>>> additionally maintains
>>>> also unity on Arch Linux. We use for building the packages the open
>>>> build service https://build.opensuse.org/project/monitor?project=GNOME
>>>> %3AAyatana
>>>> It actually builds install-able and usable packages for Fedora and
>>>> openSUSE. This week we'll give an official announcement that unity
>>>> works on openSUSE and will make a live CD available based on openSUSE
>>>> with unity. We would also like to see Mageia running unity, but this
>>>> would not be done by us ( I am mainly working on openSUSE, Xiao-Long
>>>> is working on Fedora and openSUSE). But I offer my help, if you want
>>>> to do it also with obs on GNOME:Ayatana. At the moment the structure
>>>> of a package is as follows:
> ...
>>>> There are users of Mageia who would love to see it in
>>>> Mageia: https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=130
>>>>
>>>> It would't need to be done that much to get it working on Mageia. The
>>>> spec files for openSUSE and Fedora are quite similar and based on each
>>>> other.
> 
> I have no voice nor vote, but I really would prefer Mageia invest efforts
> if any on integrating Cinnamon better than Unity. But that is just personal
> stuff...
> 

Everybody has a voice and vote, it's a community :)

I would imagine there are members of the community out there who would
love to see Unity included. It only needs somebody to actually do it.
We're still quite short of packagers so the ones we have are already
quite overloaded. There is a great mentoring scheme too to get you started.

https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Becoming_a_Mageia_Packager

I'd suggest an appeal to the wider community, there must be somebody out
there who would like to see Unity included and is willing to get
involved and make it happen.

Maybe also try the forums and mageia-discuss mailing list too.

Claire