Submit budgie-desktop into Fedora proper?

[Conan-Kudo]

Is there a reason you haven't submitted Budgie into Fedora itself? The last package review for budgie stalled out a while back, so a new package review would be welcomed!

[alunux]

I'm sorry because I didn't respond this issue because the git repo of budgie-desktop has low activities. Is it still acceptable to submit Budgie into Fedora?

[Conan-Kudo]

Absolutely. It's still maintained by @ikeydoherty, so there's no reason not to.

[TheElectronWill]

+1 on this

[ikeydoherty]

It has low activity because Budgie 10.x is basically LTS and will only see brief periods of activity, but mostly just minor fixes (no real new features)

[ForlornWongraven]

This would be really helpful.

[alunux]

With the current development of Budgie, I think I will stay with copr.

[Conan-Kudo]

What about the current development of Budgie means that you will stay in copr only?

[alunux]

@Conan-Kudo Yes. Sorry about this, but the Mutter issue has given me some worries because I am not familiar with Vala (not interested). I see pantheon desktop also suffered because of that issue[1], finally there are two packages of mutter in repository.

Also, it's already a year after the latest release (Budgie 10.4) and it fails to build on Fedora 29+.

[1] https://decathorpe.com/2018/09/04/call-for-help-pantheon-on-fedora-29.html

[Conan-Kudo]

There are already pull requests for porting to GNOME 3.30 platform: https://github.com/solus-project/budgie-desktop/pulls

[alunux]

@Conan-Kudo But, you can't apply those patches to Budgie 10.4 tarball, it fails. So many changes happened. Any advice?

[Conan-Kudo]

I could probably help create backport patches for this. Let me make some time for that.

[alunux]

Thank you @Conan-Kudo. I will give my best too.