proposed universe demotion: virt-manager (or, a request for active maintenance)

[Dustin Kirkland]

On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 5:25 AM, Martin Pitt <martin.pitt at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>  a) the Ubuntu Desktop Team provides active maintenance of virt-manager, or
>>  b) virt-manager is demoted to Universe for Lucid.
>
> If someone in the Desktop team feels very attached to virt-manager,
> taking up maintenance would be nice, but speaking for my own, it's so
> much easier to use the CLI.. Also, it's not anywhere near the
> stated goals of the desktop team, so it would be a kind of hobby
> project only.

Understood, and it's python-gtk GUI nature puts it a bit out of the
scope of the server team too (since Ubuntu Servers do not run X),
leaving it in this under-attended gray area.

> If it's not really getting maintenance from core devs, but needs some,
> then demotion sounds appropriate.

Ack, I agree with your wording.

:-Dustin