Proposed desktop-extra set

Iain Lane laney at ubuntu.com
Mon Oct 24 08:10:08 UTC 2011


Hiya,

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 06:27:32AM +0200, 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:

Can we please have a description that we can use for the packageset
against which we can:

  a) Check the proposed initial list
  b) Verify additional packages against in future

I don't know if we'll get to this today. We have already turned away
some applicants for being < 1 week, so attending to this would seem odd.

FWIW I think that this kind of set is a good idea.

Cheers,

-- 
Iain Lane                                  [ iain at orangesquash.org.uk ]
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Ubuntu Developer                                   [ laney at ubuntu.com ]
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