Next Slackware release vs. Xfce 4.12

[Raphael Groner]

Hi,

this all does not sound well to me but more like general resignation.
How come so?

As a normal user, I would feel misunderstood to read that upstream is
sleeping and without any help from the big downstream distributions.

Please change that asap!

R.


Am Tue, 03 Feb 2015 12:00:01 +0100
schrieb xfce4-dev-request at xfce.org:

> Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2015 20:21:08 -0600
> From: Mukundan Ragavan <nonamedotc at fedoraproject.org>
> To: xfce4-dev at xfce.org
> Subject: Re: Next Slackware release vs. Xfce 4.12
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> On 01/30/2015 10:27 AM, Steve Dodier-Lazaro wrote:
> > Hi Niki,
> > 
> > Have you considered shipping the "4.11" version, i.e. all the
> > latest releases of the individual Xfce components? We still have a
> > few things to do before 4.12 but most distros ship versions closer
> > to git head than 4.10, as I understand it.
> > 
> > Cheers,  
> 
> Hi Steve,
> 
> I am one of the co-maintainers of xfce core packages in Fedora. We are
> certainly not shipping the 4.11 versions yet. I do have a extra repo
> (COPR) that supplies these packages (and I am running 4.11 myself) but
> they are not official. We are also waiting for official release (or a
> definite date) before including the latest upstream versions. I may be
> wrong here, but I think Debian is also doing the same thing.
> 
> Best wishes,
> Mukundan.