Hi all, Despite I should've be posting on this list, I will open an exception for something that I've invested a lot of time in the past (and time proven Vincent to be wise), but there's this 'Unity' thing that should be scrapped. I've recently handed GNOME:Ayatana to someone to keep the work, but the direction that the project is taken doesn't please me and I would like to become 'plan B' on this issue. As some people know I also maintain a few packages on Fedora and I've also became an EPEL Packager. I've seen a message in which the author (the person I gave GNOME:Ayatana to) claiming he moved to Fedora. I've removed myself from GNOME:Ayatana after seeing xorg components and compilers being added to the repo amongst other things. I can take back Unity considering that: 1) I've spoken to Ken VanDine from Canonical and currently only the menu proxy isn't upstreamed; 2) I've spoken to Matthias Clasen from Red Hat regarding GTK+ and menu proxies, I was informed that they are working with Canonical to move everything go GMenus; 3) The code has portability issues to GCC4.7; 4) Jeff Spaleta is moving in Fedora to help with the code ports and moving Unity to Fedora; 5) We need to bring compiz back. 6) An aditional patch is required on X, I supposed this will be upstreamed by Fedora soon. This are the only real issues that the port faces for deployment; I'm familiar with most of the components (except Compiz), we have someone working on Compiz, which should be nice. Now, I'm willing to pick up my former work and make a push for this, but I will need help, mainly with: 1) Fixing code for GCC4.7 (or I can wait for Fedora to do the work and then rebase the patches); 2) Reviews (prefer someone from the GNOME Team to do them, as they are to the best of my knowledge the tighter ones, and thats how I like it); I'm in for taking this seriously (which means I will drop MATE). Aditionally since GNOME:Ayatana has a lot of crazy stuff, I don't even want to get close to it (though I need to copy packages); I need also a 'Unity' namespace on OBS for this. If OBS can take EC2 build hosts, I can donate 1 or 2 build hosts for this project alone if that helps. Anyone who can help me overcomming the gcc4.7 is available ? For me this is a race, and it's the only way I get enough motivation to run against time and make this happen in real time. I have 2 free weeks in August (other two I will be away) to make this into a usable state. --- If you have no real interesting in helping in this, please don't polute this thread. NM -- Nelson Marques // I've stopped trying to understand sandwiches with a third piece of bread in the middle... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org