On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 07:56:37 -0500 Kyle Gonzales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> So, I've been playing around with Enlightenement DR17 in its various
> releases for almost 2 years now. I can download CVS, I can make sure
> the software builds, even made RPMs for the low end libraries (trying to
> make enough RPMs to allow someone to use Entice, eRSS, etc. without
> having to pull CVS). Go me.
yay! we need packagers any time - though the real time they are needed is near
"release" :)
> The problem is, I don't feel like I'm really contributing to the
> project. I am not proficient enough with C or C++ to really contribute
> code, tho I know enough to read tips from google, hack around makefiles,
although thats our major need at the moment :(
> etc. One day, when I have time, I really want to be able to contribute
> that way, but I can't right now.
>
> So, in the meantime... what can I do to help? Is code testing an
> option? If there were a list of things along the lines of "hey we have
> new code, try this, this and this, and see if it breaks. if it does,
> give us tracebacks" it would be helpful. The Pan newsreader did this
> awhile back, and I was able to beat it senseless for about a week,
> causing at least one release myself due to bugs I tracked down. :)
hmm - we need people to maybe trawl the cvs commits list very regularly and turn
coding into news articles and publicity. also comments on irc as well where
ad-hoc discussion happens. (though this needs filtering as sometimes its just
plain mindless bitching :) ). we have some people doing some of this but this is
ALWAYS "the more the better" kind of work :)
if this means writing articles for slashdot, newsforge, osnews or any other
suitable online publication - thats all good! :)
> I use Red Hat/Fedora based systems, currently RH9, moving to Fedora Core
> 2 once it is released next month. Once I move in a couple months, I
> will have my computer lab again, and can test on other distros (or even
> other versions of Unix/BSD/etc, like FreeBSD or whatever).
>
> Also, does anyone have a system setup or can point me to a place to find
> out how to make RPMs of CVS snapshots easily? I would be glad to set
> this up and maintain this, if only I had a good idea of how to start.
> Manually changing the spec files, tarring up new CVS directories, its
> not fun.
me: i make sure the .spec files in the cvs tree is correct, make sure its
inclueded in the EXTRA_DIST of the Makefile.am then:
make distcheck
this will produce project-1.0.0.tar.gz or such a tarball - now
sudo rpm -ta project-1.0.0.tar.gz
and you SHOULD be fine... unless the .spec file is screwed or the build
procedure is... :)
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