Re: xfce-polkit

Hi,

On Sat, 19 Jul 2025 13:15:08 +0200 (CEST)
[email protected] wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> As far I as remember, the author never approached us to promote
> xfce-polkit to an official project, that would mean a bit more of
> commitment to maintain the project, probably more distros would use
> it for their Xfce sessions, meaning more issue reports, etc.
> 
> If I were to guess, the author isn't interested in more work and
> that's totally understandable. From our side, apparently no one is
> willing to adopt the project either. All in all, there is no
> technical issue, just a maintainer preference (to keep it
> unofficial).

Would be nice to see it promoted to an official project, but I simply
don't have the resources to maintain it anymore. Sorry.

I'd be happy to hand over maintainership to anyone.

Thanks!

-nc

> Jul 18, 2025, 14:23 by [email protected]:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm curious as to the status of xfce-polkit.
> > https://github.com/ncopa/xfce-polkit
> > It seems to be an unofficial package.
> >
> > Wondering why is it not officially part of Xfce4.
> > Is there some technical issue,
> > or is it about resources,
> > or something else?
> >
> > Best wishes,
> > Peter
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