Bug#1114514: RFH: cinnamon -- Innovative and comfortable desktop

[Cliff Hayes <chayes74@msn.com>]

    Hi, Fabio. Yes, it's true... I haven't been involved with Debian,
    but I'm trying to change that.
    
    I have plenty of Debian/Linux experience (15+ years) and I am
    familiar with git, but I have no direct experience with Debian
    packaging. I certainly understand not wanting to bring on someone
    with no previous experience.
    
    It would probably be better for me to start with bug triage and
    testing. The reason I decided to reply to your request for help was
    because of this paragraph:
> It would be helpful to have help even with just some areas, such as bugreports or some packages.
> For example, the Mint icons and themes packages, which I had started but then got stuck due to possible copyright and trademark issues with the icons, which could take a long time.
> Some users also request the packaging of additional nemo extensions. If someone can maintain them, we could consider adding more.
>     
    Helping with the icon issues sounds like somewhere I could start and
    then we could move on from there.
    
    Thanks,
    Cliff

On 9/26/2025 5:33 AM, Fabio Fantoni wrote:

> Thanks
>       Cliff for your reply.
>       
>       
>       From what I see, you have no experience in Debian packaging (or at
>       least I haven't found any contributions from you).
>       
>       
>       I wrote a wiki page to explain a bit about the procedure used by
>       the Cinnamon team, although it requires a minimum of experience in
>       some things and I don't know if I would have time to teach.
>       
>       
>       If you want to take a look:
>       https://wiki.debian.org/Cinnamon/Packaging
>       
>       
>       There is not only the packaging part, there could also be bug
>       triage and testing, for example.
>       
>       
>       Is there anything specific you'd like to help with? Or something
>       you'd like to try and get started with?
>       
>       
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