Am 03.07.2014 15:14 schrieb "Alberts Muktupāvels" <alberts muktupavels gmail com>:
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> Hi!
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> I will continue to work on GNOME Flashback only as maintainer! If this is not going to happen then I am leaving upstream.
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> It is not normal that our maintainer can not find some time to fix bugs and/or make new releases.
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> In 9 months he has done nothing, but only criticized my work. He requires that I am doing everything 110% correctly and/or in best way. While he can not properly do some testing and incorrectly reports that EDS is working.
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> I have made mistakes and probably will make some in future too. But at least there will be some progress.
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> This is what I would do if I will be maintainer:
> 1) Fix some EDS related bugs.
> 2) Make 3.8.1 release.
> 3) Merge gnome-applets. Probably I will try to contact with gnome-applets current and/or previous maintainers to confirm that I am right about incorrectly added license (COPYING) file.
> 4) Not sure, but might try to port all added applets to gsettings.
> 5) If I will succeed with previous point I would remove remaining gconf parts too.
> 6) Make 3.9.0 release.
> 7) Spend some time on desktop-background branch to make it ready for merging into master.
> 8) Remove some multi-screen code that makes no sense with GTK+ 3.10 or newer.
> 9) Port at least some of deprecated things.
> 10) Might release 3.10.0 as experimental release for testing.
> 11) Will spend extra time on end-session-dialog. Probably here I would try to contact gnome-session developers for some extra info.
> 12) Might create default styling .css file for use only in gnome-panel to get back old look. I hope that this will be possible in way I am thinking.
> 13) At this point I hope that most important problems would be fixed and I could release 3.12 or 3.14.
> 14) Bug fixing, more missing feature restoring.
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> So I am asking to all Flashback users and developers subscribed to this mailing-list:
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> 1) Who wants that I am continuing work on gnome-panel? Who wants me as new maintainer?
I do.
> 2) And who wants that things does not change? Who wants to watch how gnome-panel slowly dies.
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Dmitry Shachnev