Request for XFce Mandrake-rpm Maintainer

[Guido Draheim]

they had been investing into too many dead-end projects - to the effect
that they can not properly maintain something as clean and easy as xfce.
While they had changed core parts of the 8.1 distro up to a week before 
printing the CDs (so much about "freeze"), many many of the ./contrib/
packages are seriously outdated. I can easily build a -1mdk.spec for
xfce, including the necessary patch for mdk specialities, - but I do not
see a point in it: the cvs rpms run smoothly on my mdk, and *any* other
source rpms (as uploaded to mandkrake) were dumped without any feedback,
so I strongly doubt that mandrake would give even a single penny on
someone being announced new maintainer for xfce at mdk. If you just want
to do the latter in order to put some pressure to the mdk guys, I might 
say that this is futile, but anyway, just tell me, and I'll go and upload
a mdk-specific rpm the next day on my sourceforge pages, for reference
- but really, William, I would like to hear what you would make of that.

cheers, guido
p.s. take it, if mandrake can not organize things in a proper way,
spilling money from the IPO, they have to file for bankrupcy after
all, such hard is life but that's how it is.


Es schrieb Shawn Russell:
> 
> Looks like it may not matter. According to Mandrake's site they are
> having serious money problems.
> 
> William Bouterse wrote:
> > Well folks I believe the XFce maintainer for Mandrake has shafted XFce
> > for th 8.2 release.....
> >
> > Quoting an anonymous "source"
> >
> >
> >>.....If I had the access I used to have, I
> >>would have changed the srpm.  But anyway, Everything is frozen now and
> >>... is kick it and hope the maintainer next time realizes he
> >>must either pass the maintenance or do a better job......
> >
> >
> >  I am very disappointed with the lack of
> > interest on the part of the "maintainer" who as I mentioned before
> > a couple of years ago expresesed disdain for XFce....So  what
> > does one expect!!???
> >
> > Anyhow Does anyone else on this List with the capability
> > wish to enter the distro-maintainer wars for the next distro-release !!???
> > If so let Mandrakesoft know... As Oliver will attest, they jerk things around rpm-wise, but it would be for a "Noble Cause" :o)
> >
> >
> > Ah, to quote the anonymous source further....
> >
> >>If that sounds disorganized--well, how do you herd cats?......
> >
> >
> >
> > Up here we call it "quit activing like a moose's ass"
> >
> >
> > If I had anything but a modem connect
> > I would be downloading Sourcerer about now !!!
> > (But with a dozen copies of Mandrake laying around I'll
> > be staying with it for awhile, with the
> > "latest and greatest" Xfce, of course.....)
> >
> >
> 
> --
> Shawn Russell
> shawn at snoozerland.com
> www.snoozerland.com
> 
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