[Pkg-ayatana-devel] RFP: bamf -- Application matching framework

[Evgeni Golov]

On 11/17/2011 09:15 PM, Alessandro Ghedini wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 04:16:46PM +0100, Alessandro Ghedini wrote:
>> Package: wnpp
>> Severity: wishlist
>>
>> * Package name    : bamf
>>   Version         : 0.2.70
>>   Upstream Author : Canonical Ltd
>> * URL             : https://launchpad.net/bamf
>> * License         : GPL-3, LGPL-3 or LGPL-2.1
>>   Programming Lang: C
>>   Description     : Application matching framework
>>
>> The BAMF framework removes the headache of applications matching into a 
>> simple DBus daemon and C wrapper library. 
>> .
>> Currently features application matching at amazing levels of accuracy 
>> (covering nearly every corner case).
>>
>> Note that this software is needed by the new version (0.3) of gnome-pie.
>>
>> Since this software is part of the Ayatana Project I was wondering whether
>> the pkg-ayatana team could take care of packaging and maintaing this (I
>> may provide some help if needed).
> 
> Ping? Is there anyone from pkg-ayatana interested in this package?

[ Sorry for the late response, quite busy right now ]

Uhm, theoretically: this is needed for Unity, right? So we need it.
But I must admit I do not have the time for it right now.
Would you be interested in joining the team and packaging bamf?

Regards
Evgeni