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

[Mario Limonciello]

On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 21:41, Dustin Kirkland <kirkland at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> Servers might not be running X themselves OOTB, but users and admins are
still X forwarding apps that can be offered with a graphical interface to
their local desktops, are they not?

-- 
Mario Limonciello
superm1 at gmail.com
Sent from Austin, TX, United States
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