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- Add 2013Q4 report on the GNOME ports

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<!-- XXX: Keep updating the number of entries -->
<p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report
contains 16 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
contains 17 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
<p>The deadline for submissions covering between January and
March 2014 is April 7th, 2014.</p>
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<task>Support secure boot.</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='ports'>
<title>GNOME/&os;</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>&os; GNOME Team</name>
<email>gnome@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/"/>
<url href="http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/334661">Import of MATE</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>GNOME is a desktop environment and graphical user interface
that runs on top of a computer operating system. GNOME is part
of the GNU Project and can be used with various Unix-like
operating systems, including &os;.</p>
<p>In this quarter, MATE&nbsp;1.6 was finally imported into the
Ports Collection, thanks to the efforts of Jeremy Messenger.
MATE is a desktop environment forked from the now-unmaintained
code base of GNOME&nbsp;2, therefore it is basically a
replacement for GNOME&nbsp;2. It recommended for users wanting
to keep GNOME&nbsp;2 as their desktop to switch as GNOME&nbsp;2
will be replaced by GNOME&nbsp;3 in the near future. This
switch will be announced in advance, so people will have time to
move to MATE if they have not already. The complete MATE-based
desktop environment can be installed via the <tt>x11/mate</tt>
port, or, for a minimal install, <tt>x11/mate-base</tt>.</p>
<p>Our home page is quite out of date. An update for it for
GNOME&nbsp;3.6 is underway. Part of this update is rewriting
and updating the old GNOME porting guide as a chapter of the
Porter's Handbook.</p>
<p>Another major task required for getting a bleeding-edge GNOME
build on &os; mostly out-of-the box is moving to JHbuild with
some custom rules. This is done to find and fix compile issues
on other BSDs more quickly.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>GNOME&nbsp;2 ports still need to be sorted out to evaluate
which GNOME&nbsp;2 components will gone or be replaced with
their newer GNOME&nbsp;3 versions. This task is current halted
until we can get the documentation into a shape good enough to
gather the issues and document the migration, including how not
to do that when the upgrade is not preferred. (This does not
mean we do not want to know about these issues, though).</task>
<task>Help the X11 Team with Cairo&nbsp;1.12, since the next
version of GNOME&nbsp;3 (3.12) will need an up-to-date version
of Pango and GTK&nbsp;3.</task>
</help>
</project>
</report>