svn commit: r43503 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

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
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--- 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>
