It's getting there...

Fosdem is over. I heard some talkes, investigated some booths, but the fun thing was meeting Michael, Ken, Antonio, and some other guys there.
I guess there are better organized events and meetings out there, but it was worth going there (at least if it's only a 2,5h ride). Unfortunatly I didn't run into any Xfce developer, but a few of them have been there. Hope next time they will have a booths or a devroom (even if they would have to share with Gnome).
I did some improvments to Xfce Edition, added a lot of "unimportant" packages I just forgot (network-manager-applet, gimp, inkscape, evince, brasero).
So biggest issue now is to make gdm start Xfce as default, for new users.
Whaawmp is now working with python 2.4, I added a svn snapshot to Xfce Edition.
Unfortunatly due to gst dvdnav bugginess, it doesn't support dvd menus. C'est la vi.
So long...

whaawmp

Searching for a Totem replacement, I ran into whaawmp.
It's meant to be a Totem replacement, written in python, using pygtk and gstreamer.
Unfortunatly it's written using Python 2.5 (we don't have it in foresight, yet), so I just joined the development team, working on a Python 2.4 branch. Hopefully there will be a partial working version later today.

Isn't it green?

I did some work on Xfce Edition again and it looks green.
Pulseaudio and Packagekit are working now.

Still a lot of work to get a stable, full featured release.
But it's slowly getting there.

migration and midori

Well, I tried to migrate to group-xfce-dist on fl:2 but I had some problems with python-sqlite and conary will remove a couple of packages, find details here.
Thanks to ken, who has built Webkit for 'GNOME Developers Kit', I was able to build and run midori on Foresight Linux (using my "do thinks that can break anything here"-qemu/win2k box).

Roadmap

Recently pcuttler gave me proper rights to add Releases to Xfce Edition on jira. So Xfce Edition has some blocking tasks that need to be done before getting an alpha release.
Check them out at foresights issuetracker

Thunar patches, claws and everything

Now that there is xfce4 in fl:2-devel, I'll go to add some patches to thunar that didn't make it into 0.9. We need a mailclient too, so i will cook claws-mail, because it's a nice gtk+ client (for me, evolution or thunderbird, just don't feel right as default for Xfce Edition).
Later i have to start hacking on group-desktop-platform, to check what we need. I think it will turn out as a slightly modified Gnome Edition just with Xfce instead of Gnome and will step by step change things where needed/wanted. After all it's Xfce not Gnome.

A little delay

Looks like I won't have time to work on Xfce Edition before Saturday. But if all goes well Xfce 4.4.2 will be available for fl:2-devel then and we will get rid of this nasty bug in xfwm4. The recipes are already there...