I am just back on line since meeting Petter in Bergen. I've love to help get a bigger team helping with the Debian packaging and I am more willing to be the guinea pig from the Sugar Activity developer perspective. I will document the steps so that it is easier for the next package.
A couple of comments re Turtle Art: * I've only just begun work on making it run stand-alone from Sugar. I'll continue to refine things over the next week or two. The only version that will work at all right now is v46. I have pushed a few additional patches since that release, but it is the last one that I have packaged as an xo bundle and tar ball. * Turtle Art Portfolio, which Ed referred to is an experimental branch, but not worthwhile packaging. I pull from it into the mainline Turtle Art, which has the portfolio features integrated. I'll be back on line this evening when I will have a chance to review the documents that Jonas has send. regards. -walter On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Jonas Smedegaard <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 01:31:56PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: >> >> [Jonas Smedegaard] >>> >>> Great that you work on this. And nice that you consider the Pippy >>> packaging an improvement :-) >> >> I picked Pippy at random, hoping it was a simple package with similar >> needs. :) > > You were lucky then: Pippy is probably the best showcase of Sugar activity > packaging - it is the one I recommend myself to people wanting to get their > hands dirty on Sugar activity packaging :-) > > >>> Would you be interested in maintaining Turtleart together with us at the >>> OLPC Alioth team? >> >> Yes, definitely. > > Great. > > >>> So far, the team consist of some 10 people but I have done most work so >>> far. I am fan of CDBS and Git (as you might have noticed from that Pippy >>> packaging) so you might consider doing similar for Turtleart. >> >> I am not yet up to speed with git, but expect to be able to handle >> that too, and do not have anything against CDBS, so I suspect that >> should work just fine. Clues and tips on how to add a new package to >> the alioth repository is most welcome. > > Attached is a couple of draft documents about packaging. One is the file > currently included in packages like sugar-pippy-activity and the other is an > early draft of what became the README.source that I posted earlier today. > Both of them contain more details for newcomers to the packaging routines. > > Beware that one of the files describe way too much: Sugar activities do > *not* use TopGit (I considered that, but learned that even if a very > powerful tool it cannot handle multiple concurrent versions that I want - > not for activities but for library packages (called "glucose" upstream)). > > To elaborate a bit on why I rewrote that file: I am not against documenting > for newcomers. I just realized while working on it that trying to be both > accurate and detailed ends in blurring both. A newcomer would probably need > even more info than I provide anyway, and all those details gets in the way > of getting a clear overview for experienced package maintainers. > > > > Hope those files is helpful, both concretely to kickstart your very welcome > engagement in Sugar packaging, and also perhaps helpful for writing some > wiki page or whatever for newcomers. > > Don't hesitate to ask about Git: I have become quite a fan of it, and > learned a few small tricks on how to navigate. > > Here's one: The following command enable colored diffs, status messages, > etc. when using a terminal (i.e. not when piped to a file or similar > "colorblind" operations): > > git config --global color.ui auto > > > Kind regards, > > - Jonas > > -- > * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt > * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ > > [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAknQx0UACgkQn7DbMsAkQLj7HACbBgk2sytESJ+Bt5ZkzgczmuMu > XD0AniGkEvn59oIoLE0hlKobDtXGU5uh > =DEzq > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
