svn commit: r43503 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status
Gabor Pali
pgj at FreeBSD.org
Tue Jan 14 14:55:46 UTC 2014
Author: pgj
Date: Tue Jan 14 14:55:46 2014
New Revision: 43503
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/43503
Log:
- Add 2013Q4 report on the GNOME ports
Submitted by: kwm
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml Tue Jan 14 13:45:33 2014 (r43502)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml Tue Jan 14 14:55:46 2014 (r43503)
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
<!-- XXX: Keep updating the number of entries -->
<p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report
- contains 16 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
+ contains 17 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
<p>The deadline for submissions covering between January and
March 2014 is April 7th, 2014.</p>
@@ -924,4 +924,63 @@
<task>Support secure boot.</task>
</help>
</project>
+
+ <project cat='ports'>
+ <title>GNOME/&os;</title>
+
+ <contact>
+ <person>
+ <name>&os; GNOME Team</name>
+ <email>gnome at FreeBSD.org</email>
+ </person>
+ </contact>
+
+ <links>
+ <url href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/"/>
+ <url href="http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/334661">Import of MATE</url>
+ </links>
+
+ <body>
+ <p>GNOME is a desktop environment and graphical user interface
+ that runs on top of a computer operating system. GNOME is part
+ of the GNU Project and can be used with various Unix-like
+ operating systems, including &os;.</p>
+
+ <p>In this quarter, MATE 1.6 was finally imported into the
+ Ports Collection, thanks to the efforts of Jeremy Messenger.
+ MATE is a desktop environment forked from the now-unmaintained
+ code base of GNOME 2, therefore it is basically a
+ replacement for GNOME 2. It recommended for users wanting
+ to keep GNOME 2 as their desktop to switch as GNOME 2
+ will be replaced by GNOME 3 in the near future. This
+ switch will be announced in advance, so people will have time to
+ move to MATE if they have not already. The complete MATE-based
+ desktop environment can be installed via the <tt>x11/mate</tt>
+ port, or, for a minimal install, <tt>x11/mate-base</tt>.</p>
+
+ <p>Our home page is quite out of date. An update for it for
+ GNOME 3.6 is underway. Part of this update is rewriting
+ and updating the old GNOME porting guide as a chapter of the
+ Porter's Handbook.</p>
+
+ <p>Another major task required for getting a bleeding-edge GNOME
+ build on &os; mostly out-of-the box is moving to JHbuild with
+ some custom rules. This is done to find and fix compile issues
+ on other BSDs more quickly.</p>
+ </body>
+
+ <help>
+ <task>GNOME 2 ports still need to be sorted out to evaluate
+ which GNOME 2 components will gone or be replaced with
+ their newer GNOME 3 versions. This task is current halted
+ until we can get the documentation into a shape good enough to
+ gather the issues and document the migration, including how not
+ to do that when the upgrade is not preferred. (This does not
+ mean we do not want to know about these issues, though).</task>
+
+ <task>Help the X11 Team with Cairo 1.12, since the next
+ version of GNOME 3 (3.12) will need an up-to-date version
+ of Pango and GTK 3.</task>
+ </help>
+ </project>
</report>
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