Re: The Children Of GNOME

[ikey <ikey evolve-os com>]

On 17/02/15 09:55, Olav Vitters wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 07:23:37AM +0000, ikey wrote:
> > I was wondering what thoughts people had as to centralizing
> > communication between the Children of GNOME? Off the top of
> > my head that includes Budgie (thus Evolve OS), Pantheon (
> > thus Elementary OS), MATE and even Cinnamon (more long distance)
>
> I usually leave this up to the various teams. For MATE, we've given them
> ownership and git accounts so they can maintain various modules that
> we've dropped. They're able to upload things on download.gnome.org.
Makes sense.
> I usually don't see any problems having people use GNOME infrastructure.
> There's an requirement list somewhere. Basically: free software, GTK+
> related, maintained. That's more than just communication. Being closer
> on infra usually eases communication though.
Ack.
> > So yeah. Budgie is a proud GNOME brat and it seems to me that
> > throughout our implementations, we're not all talking to all
> > of our siblings. A simple example could be something as trivial
> > as porting something from one API to another, relevant to all
> > of the kids. Others may be more advanced, such as Wayland efforts,
> > again of interest to all of us.
>
> This depends on the preferred method of communication. If the various
> teams want to communicate, then we can e.g. setup a mailing list on
> mail.gnome.org. If some prefer forums, then this won't work.
I prefer mailing lists myself, but I guess if folks don't see this
message I can go poking around and get responses from people.
> For distributors of GNOME, we announce big changes to distributor-list.
> Might be beneficial to watch that one?
True enough, I need to subscribe with this mail too :)
> > Budgie and Pantheon likely keep closer to the latest upstream versions
> > of the GNOME software, so speaking on behalf of only Budgie right now
> > I imagine there are situations we would run into, that we could give
> > a "heads up - here's what we went and fixed" to the other projects.
>
> This sounds a little bit like what GNOME uses distributor-list for.
>
> > More of a 7:20AM ramble, but I hope others would be interested in
> > more combined efforts and centralizing discussions, as opposed to
> > the existing tribal knowledge and whatnot. :)
>
> Reusing infrastructure and GNOME facilitating things, there's a lot of
> leeway. Just as long as it is still considered separate projects.
Indeed. Budgie is its own project.. but obviously highly dependent on
GNOME projects (mutter/gtk mostly)
> BTW: https://evolve-os.com/download/  md5 is not secure. You want
> sha25sum.
Ack. Updated it now, thx. Just need to wait for caches to fully
invalidate. Website needs a fixup this week, but the current beta
is semi-decomissioned while I make some large changes =)

- ikey