On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Bill Davidsen <davidsen(a)tmr.com> wrote:
What did I say which in any way referenced RHEL7? We are running
Fedora on our
support machines (not the servers) and my question was pretty specific as to
FC17 being the issue, so we can get off FC14.
Sorry, I thought you were talking about RHEL in that paragraph.
I take it that "feel free to do it yourself" is a polite
way of saying no, I
can't imagine anyone here doing the port with no assurance that it would be
accepted.
No, it's the polite way of saying "feel free to do it yourself, as
that's the only way anything gets done in a volunteer project".
The only two issues I'm aware of with packaging a GNOME 2 fork for Fedora are:
- Infringement of GNOME Foundation trademarks.
- Compatibility with the GNOME 3 stack in Fedora. (ensuring that it
doesn't trample on it, etc.)
MATE appears to take care of both of those issues, though admittedly I
haven't looked at it thoroughly.
The only things required to get something into Fedora are:
- a suitable RPM package pursuant to the Packaging Guidelines [1]
This should be really easy, as the F14 RPMs should be able to be used
as a starting point with minimal changes (changing the name, tarball
location, etc.).
- a packager willing to do the work to rename and convert the old
GNOME 2 RPMS to FATE and submit them for inclusion
- a sponsor willing to review it and assist the new maintainer
Given the amount of griping GNOME 3 has evoked on this and other
Fedora lists, it shouldn't be difficult to find others interested in
helping with a well-maintained GNOME 2 fork.
MGSEs would be even easier as there are already lots of GNOME Shell
extensions in the repo, and they're just bits of Javascript that
should be simple to package.
-T.C.