2012/5/22 Marguerite Su
Hi, list,
I'm a little bit worried about our Mono:* repositories...
it seems main packages in them haven't been updated since openSUSE 11.4.
This is wrong, a few packages were updated before the openSUSE 12.1, mainly packages related to Banshee. Furthermore, a lot of Banshee dependencies were pushed to Factory so that 12.1 could provide all the dependencies for Banshee.
and I watched Mono official page...still 11.4 too.
I have a SR opened for 4 weeks...(114334, pinta, a gimp-like mono-based graphics package)
earlier this month I sent emails to their maintainers, and one of them told me to ask mono release manager. no reply for now unluckily but seems they added 12.1 for some repositories.
Stephen Shaw has been very receptive to all my Mono requests and a lot was achieved through him. I would recomend you to contact him (sshaw) on #opensuse-gnome @ FreeNode. I would believe he is the right man to unblock any situation you might face.
and there're rumors on the internet saying when attachmate acquires SuSE, they didn't acquire our mono developers.
sad story.
anyway we have a half-dead mono in openSUSE for a while.
If no one wants, I dont mind updating it and doing some refactoring on the packages; the quality of mono packages is far behind standard openSUSE packages (for example, GNOME packages are very nicely done, really state of the art).
and mono is sometimes important for openSUSE gnome.(eg: banshee...which depends a lot on Mono, and our mono versions are obsolete enough that to make it unstable...on KDE you can't even get it running; another eg: monodevelop)
Not only KDE, but there's a few issues with monodevelop; from missing dependencies that prevent the program to start without errors/popups, to segfaults. MonoDevelop is officially broken even before 12.1 was released. I offered myself in the past to fix it, but I got informed that an update was "comming soon". Last time I looked at it, it never landed.
so
1. is there any plan we continue collaboration with mono official developers or we take these repositories back into our own hands...while that's not important at all...just curious to know
I dont mind maintaining the Mono stack, which I'm rather familiar (at least with some components) from the times I hanged around in Banshee land. I even started refactoring the packages in the past, almost half of the stack has been refactored ;)
2. what more important is, we have to call enough volunteers to update them all for our coming 12.2 beta. 12.2 will be released on late 2012, but our mono version is in 2011...nearly 12 months ago. latest stable mono is released on Dec 19 2011.
I dont mind maintaining or helping maintaining those packages as long as people don't undo the stuff I've worked without at least a valid technical explanation; and of course I need permissions.... I work way faster that way.
any idea or news about it?
Greetings
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