GNOME Apps in UbuntuGNOME

[Fran Dieguez]

On mié 18 sep 2013 13:34:31 CEST, Tim wrote:
>
> On 18/09/13 08:23, Fran Dieguez wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> After an awesome work from Tim, almost all the errors I've been reporting are now fixed or close to be fixed. So now that everything is in a
>> good shape to get a gorgeous UbuntuGNOME release and an "stable" integration with the 3.10 version (at least available through PPAs), I have
>> to ask to look a little bit forward.
>>
>> I know that GNOME 3.10 will be officially published next 25th and from that day the final tarballs will be published and available for
>> packagers to work with, but I want to know if the new app previews will be available from the staging PPA. I'm talking specifically about
>> gnome-maps and gnome-music.
> They will appear eventually but arent really a priority at this stage! That said they could be a good project for someone who wants to get into
> helping out with packaging. gnome-music is already on ppa:ricotz/testing, so just need to be rebased against the release tarball. gnome-maps
> should just be a simple single binary package (see for example gnome-weather package, it will be similar to that)
>
> Tim
>
>>
>> I think that Tim or Jeremy could give some information about this topic. Will you wait for Debian to package those apps or are you building
>> your own packages? I'm not trying to make you work more than necessary but I would like to know what is your procedure in these cases. IMHO, I
>> will wait for Debian if they have plans to package them and after that "copy" them to the staging PPA.
>>
>> I really think that GNOME is taking a good shape with an integrated UI and UX among all the former apps and creating a good set of new apps. I
>> don't know about all of you but I'm really excited about the future of GNOME with Wayland as a base and with the improvements due to the new CSD.
>>
>> What do you reckon?
>>
>> Regards.
>>
>
>

I could help with that, as I have a little experience with packaging 
software for Debian.