Proposed desktop-extra set

Micah Gersten micahg at ubuntu.com
Mon Oct 24 04:56:48 UTC 2011


On 10/23/2011 11:27 PM, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Hello Jeremy, DMB,
>
> Jeremy Bicha [2011-09-23 11:19 -0400]:
>> There's been some discussion about making a new desktop seed for
>> Universe packages. I believe a main driver is to allow those of us
>> who've been working on gnome-shell but aren't Core or MOTU yet to
>> avoid having to get everything sponsored. Also, since ~ubuntu-desktop
>> already has commit rights to the GNOME stuff in main, it makes sense
>> that they have the rights to the GNOME part of universe too. Here's a
>> proposed starter list from ricotz and me:
>>
>> alacarte
>> anjuta
>> anjuta-extras
>> caribou
>> cheese
>> clutter-gst
>> ekiga
>> eog-plugins
>> epiphany-browser
>> epiphany-extensions
>> evolution-mapi
>> gedit-plugins
>> gjs
>> gnome-applets
>> gnome-backgrounds
>> gnome-contacts
>> gnome-games-extra-data
>> gnome-panel
>> gnome-shell
>> gnome-system-tools
>> gnome-tweak-tool
>> gthumb
>> mx
>> mutter
>> seed
>> sound-juicer
>> tracker
>
> This looks very appropriate to me. Sending to DMB for official
> confirmation, if that is acked, I can create a new desktop-extra
> package set and put ~ubuntu-desktop into it. I believe we can't put
> them into ~ubuntu-desktop directly, as this is autogenerated from
> seeds.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Martin
>
I've added this to the agenda for tomorrow's meeting at 14:00 UTC, but
due to the late notice and that it's only a 1 hr meeting, we might not
get to it.

Thanks,
Micah



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