Bug 73906 - How best to give xdg-utils some love?
Summary: How best to give xdg-utils some love?
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Portland
Classification: Unclassified
Component: xdg-utils (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other All
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Assignee: Portland Bugs
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Reported: 2014-01-22 00:50 UTC by Reuben Thomas
Modified: 2015-01-04 04:22 UTC (History)
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Description Reuben Thomas 2014-01-22 00:50:48 UTC
xdg-utils has a lot of open bugs, many of which seem outdated, and a lot of which have patches. The last release was some years ago, and distributions are mostly using 1.1.0rc1 (i.e. a pre-release version).

Personally, I'm the maintainer of Caffeine https://launchpad.net/caffeine , a utility that gives the user manual control of the screensaver. I would like to outsource the complicated logic of controlling the screensaver to xdg-screensaver, but it badly needs updating to cope with newer screensaver systems. How can I help this actually get into a release?

Similarly, it looks as though it would be profitable to go through the currently-open bugs, close out-of-date test reports, and actually use (or refuse) the various patches on offer. I'd be happy to help with this.
Comment 1 Rex Dieter 2014-01-22 16:38:03 UTC
bugzilla isnt really well-suited for such discussions, preferable,
http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg

that said, I've been doing periodic commits/fixes here as time allows, but any help would be greatly appreciated.
Comment 2 Rex Dieter 2014-01-22 16:47:30 UTC
In the meantime, offer some useful contributions, including:
* triage bugs
* offer patches/fixes
* whatever else you can think of.. :)

and after a short period of constructive activity, I'd be willing to help grant you direct commit access per
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/AccountRequests/
Comment 3 Rex Dieter 2014-02-07 16:47:51 UTC
fyi, 
xdg-utils-1.1.0-rc2 release made today, see also:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2014-February/013184.html
Comment 4 Reuben Thomas 2014-02-07 16:51:13 UTC
Thanks! I'm buried in other stuff at the moment, but xdg-utils is still in
my in-tray.


On 7 February 2014 16:47, <bugzilla-daemon@freedesktop.org> wrote:

>   *Comment # 3 <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73906#c3> on
> bug 73906 <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73906> from Rex
> Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu> *
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> fyi,
> xdg-utils-1.1.0-rc2 release made today, see also:http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2014-February/013184.html
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Comment 5 Rex Dieter 2015-01-04 04:22:05 UTC
Looks like the query has been answered, closing


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