[jody at gnome.org: Re: freedesktop.org platform - preparing for release 1]

[Daniel Stone]

Must research these ones.

----- Forwarded message from Jody Goldberg <jody at gnome.org> -----

Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 08:39:41 -0500
To: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel at free.fr>
Cc: Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org>, desktop-devel-list at gnome.org
Subject: Re: freedesktop.org platform - preparing for release 1
Message-ID: <20040121133941.GA22240 at athlon.thegoldbergs.ca>
From: Jody Goldberg <jody at gnome.org>

On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 10:40:33AM +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> Le mer 21/01/2004 ? 04:14, Daniel Stone a ?crit :
> > Hey dudes,
> > I've just been appointed freedesktop.org release manager and am looking
> > towards a freedesktop.org Platform release. I'm in the middle of tying
> > up all our xlibs stuff (working out where existing modules are, cleaning
> > them up, importing Xpm/Xaw), and making an xlibs release, then we get to
> > look towards the fd.o Platform.
> > 
> > Basically, the platform will contain:
> > 	* xlibs - our xlibs repository, maintained by Keith/Jim;
> > 	* xserver - our X server, maintained by Keith/Jaymz/Eric;
> > 	  + probably won't release with first platform
> > 	* Cairo - this thing rocks;
> > 	* D-BUS - pretty fundamental, desktop-wise;
> > 	* other stuff.
> 
> Will XCB/XCL be part of the xlibs package ?

libxklavier would be good to include too please.

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----- Forwarded message from Ramanan Selvaratnam <rama at uklinux.net> -----

Subject: Re: freedesktop.org platform - preparing for release 1
From: Ramanan Selvaratnam <rama at uklinux.net>
To: Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org>
Cc: desktop-devel-list at gnome.org
Message-Id: <1074691217.737.10.camel at localhost>
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 13:50:15 +0000

On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 03:14, Daniel Stone wrote:

> I've just been appointed freedesktop.org release manager and am looking
> towards a freedesktop.org Platform release.

All the best.

[...]

> I'm in the process of working out what that 'other stuff' should be, so
> if you have any suggestions, please let me know. 

Enchant
(its already hosted on fd.o)

(and I guess it needs more proactive marketting to few projects like OOo
that has not adopted it as I understood it last month)

I do not understand how excatly applictions are chosen for the GUI focus
fd.o has but if Enchant is fit for inclusion in the Platform release
then may be there willbe more suggestions.


> We also have some grounding in various standard-setting activities, so
> if you have any gripes you want fixed, please feel free to let me know
> about that, too.

My main gripe is incoherent translations across various platforms.
Before that could be fixed I see those in a hurry moving onto
spellcheckers and what have you, which would technically render
technologies like Enchant useless.

So please see next mail :) 

Regards,

Ramanan


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Daniel Stone                                              <daniel at fooishbar.org>
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