What's holding back Fedora to create an offical XFCE atomic spin?

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Hi,

So I’ve been using Silverblue for about 2 months now and it’s been a fantastic experience so far. But I do miss using the good old and reliable Xfce :confused:

I read some threads about the ublue project and how they are creating this different base images you can use to rebase your Fedora Atomic installation and vauxite is the nickname for their Xfce spin but the images were tag as archived on the github and redirect to a “main” image. So the TL;DR here is: I have tinker around to have Xfce being rebased.

What I am wondering is: Why exactly we can have Xfce spin for Fedora Workspace but we stil don’t one for Atomic?

I do understand that it takes a good amount of work to maintain various flavors of spins but what am I asking is: IF we had an actual roadmap to an Xfce Atomic spin what would be the milestones of it to make it be worthy of being distributed as an official fedora spin?

Or should I just “shut up” and use ublue?

Thank you :slight_smile:

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Here are the steps to create a new Atomic variant: How to make a new rpm-ostree desktop variant in Fedora? - Siosm’s blog

For XFCE Atomic, we already have the manifests, so we need someone to write a Change Request, follow the Fedora process and help with the maintenance and testing of the variant.

I can help with the Fedora process but I don’t have time to be the primary maintainer nor will I be able to answer questions about XFCE, etc.

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