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• Jeremy Messenger (mezz@)
• KoopMast (kwm@)
• Joe Marcus Clarke (marcus@)
• Alexander Nedotsukov (bland@)
• Michael Johnson (ahze@)
• Don Lewis (truckman@)
• Ruslan Makhmatkhanov (rm@)

Contributor:

• Gustau Pérez i Querol (IRC: gusi)

When a TODO table has an empty “Contact” cell, it means that nobody is working on the task yet. Please contact the project's coordinator if you want to pick up the task.

Below is a list of things we would like to have but due to time constrains haven't gotten around to. There might also be other issues involved like software written with linux udev for example.

*list is possible outdated* It is known Gnome ports need /proc mounted to work. Below is a list to keep track of these and perhaps in the future replace them with something more modern and that will works beter for FreeBSD. This is because our procfs only does a subset of what linux procfs does.

Coordinator: AJKehoe

The WANT_GNOME port setting is being decommissioned because it causes automatic dependencies. To facilitate this, many ports will need to be updated, followed by WANT_GNOME being removed from the bsd.gnome.mk and bsd.port.mk files.

Each port will be updated according to these specifications:

• All ports must declare their dependencies either explicitly or by using the OPTIONS framework. Guidelines for doing this can be found in the FreeBSD Porter's Handbook on the Dependencies page under “Problems Caused by Automatic Dependencies”.

• For ports that are using the old OPTIONS format, they will be converted to the new format. This new format is described in the FreeBSD Porter's Handbook on the Makefile Options page.

• As announced on the FreeBSD-ports-announce mailing list, extraneous header information will be removed from the Makefile, leaving only the $FreeBSD$ id on the first line.

• Each port will be tested by running “make install && make package && make deinstall && make reinstall” in its directory.

• Any problems that are noticed while updating these ports will be fixed and/or reported to the port maintainer.

When this WANT_GNOME decommission project was started on 2012-09-01, there were 184 ports using WANT_GNOME in their Makefiles. This is not a trivial number, and many of these ports are rather complex.

find /usr/ports/ -regex '/usr/ports/[^\/]*/[^\/]*/Makefile' -print | awk '{ system(“grep -l \”WANT_GNOME\“ ” $0); }'

Anyone who's able to assist with this project is encouraged to post a message to the FreeBSD-gnome mailing list. Please include [WANT_GNOME] at the start of the subject line, and in the body of your message, include the list of ports that you want to help update. If you have an alternative E-mail address or other method that you would prefer for contacting you (a username in the FreeBSD Wiki, for example), be sure to mention this in your message.

Each volunteer will have their contact link appear in the “Contact” column for the ports that they've volunteered to update. If nothing appears here and the status is not shown as “Finished”, then the port needs a volunteer to update it.

Thank you in advance to everyone who volunteers!

Coordinator: KoopMast

Progress: In progress

There are still some leftovers in the port that have relation to GNOME 1.

Remove gnome1 components from bsd.gnome.mk, and update the example to use GNOME 2 macros. Also update the gnome website to use GNOME 2 examples.