The Gentoo Gnome Project aims to bring the current and complete GNOME Desktop Environment to Gentoo. We maintain the GNOME core libraries, GNOME Office Applications (gnumeric, abiword, dia, planner) and various applications that are part of the GNOME Desktop.
There are several sections available on our project site. These include:
| Section | Summary |
| FAQ | Frequently Asked Questions about GNOME on Gentoo |
| Policy | Policy statements for the Gentoo Gnome Project |
| Gnome 2.16 Upgrade Guide | Upgrade guide for Gnome 2.16 |
| Gnome 2.18 Upgrade Guide | Upgrade guide for Gnome 2.18 |
| Gnome 2.20 Upgrade Guide | Upgrade guide for Gnome 2.20 |
| Gnome 2.22 Upgrade Guide | Upgrade guide for Gnome 2.22 |
| Gnome 2.26 Upgrade Guide | Upgrade guide for Gnome 2.26 |
| Developer | Nickname | Role |
| Mart Raudsepp | leio | Lead |
| Daniel Gryniewicz | dang | Member |
| Gilles Dartiguelongue | eva | Member |
| Arun Raghavan | ford_prefect | Member |
| Romain Perier | mrpouet | Member |
| Nirbheek Chauhan | nirbheek | Member |
| Remi Cardona | remi | Member |
All developers can be reached by e-mail using nickname@gentoo.org.
The tasks of the gnome project are:
Codeina support - Implement Codeina support in Gentoo
People at Fluendo have written a nice little python application that installs missing packages required by applications using gstreamer. This project, in collaboration with gstreamer herd, aims at making it possible to use it on Gentoo.
| Starting date: | 13 October 2008 |
| Developer: | eva (Gilles Dartiguelongue) - member |
| Reference: | bug #241674 |
The gnome project maintains the following herds:
| Herd | Members | Description |
| gnome | dang, eva, ford_prefect, leio, mrpouet, nirbheek, remi | GNOME Desktop and related packages |
| gnome-accessibility | dang, leio, mrpouet | GNOME accessibility packages |
| gnome-office | dang, eva, leio, mrpouet, nirbheek | GNOME Office packages |
| gnome-mm | dang, leio, mrpouet, remi | GNOME C++ Bindings |
The GNOME herd holds meetings at #gentoo-meetings. Meetings are announced in the topic of #gentoo-desktop. Schedule for meetings is mostly irregular.
| Date | Attendance | Log | Summary | Comments |
| June 15, 2009 | eva, ford_prefect, leio, mrpouet (at the end), nirbheek, remi | 2009-06-15 | 2009-06-15 | leio elected as new lead (dang on extended away); new herd member mrpouet |
| Date | Description |
| 08 Oct 2005 | Start to fix up the project page. Fixed top half of page's GuideXML, added members, took off old stuff that doesn't mean anything anymore, or is incorrect. |
| 03 Aug 2006 | Move FAQ to separate page. Link Policy page. Change lead. |
| 28 Jan 2007 | Update team members/lead |
| 24 Mar 2009 | Update team members and projects. |
| 16 June 2009 | Update team members and lead. Remove historical task item. Gstreamer is an individual herd now, separate from GNOME team. |
| 04 July 2009 | Add details about the first team meeting. |