[Bf-committers] Linux package maintainers

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

Best commitments are by stakeholders, working on what's in their interest too :)
I'm not capable of advising or coordinating that.

-Ton-

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Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation   ton at blender.org    www.blender.org
Blender Institute   Entrepotdok 57A  1018AD Amsterdam   The Netherlands

On 2 Jan, 2013, at 19:27, Patrick Shirkey wrote:

> 
> On Thu, January 3, 2013 5:04 am, Ton Roosendaal wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> In the past weeks I've noticed Linux package maintainers getting annoyed
>> with Blender.
>> 
>> Archlinux - check the comments:
>> https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/blender
>> 
>> Gentoo rant:
>> http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2012/12/bloody-upstream
>> 
>> We're not a typical (nor by origin) Linux project, getting sources built
>> and distributed for Linux distros is not a priority among our active
>> contributors.
>> 
>> However, I'd like to see if there's people on this list who like to help
>> out keeping things smooth for Linux distros? Also on Ubuntu Software
>> Center Blender's way behind usually...
>> 
> 
> 
> What kind of commitment are you looking for?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Patrick Shirkey
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