This gist file is provided as a supplement to the article "elementary team looking to bring Pantheon desktop to Debian" on fuckyeah-elementaryos.tumblr.com. You can read the full article here.
As part of the Google Summer of Code 2014 event, Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff of elementary expressed his interest on integrating elementary's Pantheon shell, GUI framework, applications and GTK theme into the Debian codebase.
Davidoff wrote a statement in a comment for the article "Interview with Slax's author" on the Slax Linux website.
Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff 2014-04-03 11:51
elementary's OS guy here :)
I'll be bringing Pantheon to Debian as a Google Summer of Code project - if it's accepted, that is: [link] That should help work out some kinks that may be related to targeting Ubuntu exclusively so far - although Pantheon was successfully ported to Gentoo and in to degree Arch already.
I was also meaning to provide documentation on building and packaging our apps all along but never got to it - I always had something more high-priority to do. Maybe I'll make a series of blog posts on the Debian porting process that might aid with integration.
The only thing I don't intend to port is Wingpanel which (at present) is dependent on Ubuntu/Ayatana indicators. We'll most likely have to ditch them after the 14.04-based release but it's not clear what could we replace them with...
Also, I'd be glad to answer any questions you have regarding integrating Pantheon. I'm sure other devs will too. You can find us in #elementary-dev on FreeNode or on "elementary-dev-community" mailing list on Launchpad.
Oh. That's perfect.