Hello, What is the issue, if you need a new contributor I should do. What are blocking phases?
Regards, On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 17:24 Nicholas D Steeves <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Rosea, > > Sorry for the long delay in replying. I lost the thread and it took me > this long to think "say, I wonder what happened with that new > contributor who wants to work on NON?" > > "rosea.grammostola" <[email protected]> writes: > > > Nicholas and others, > > > > Ha, I didn't solve anything man. I'm probably the most unclassified > > person for the job. But hey, if no one wants to do it, you've to do it > > yourself isn't it? Which I can't so that's why I'm asking these 'stupid' > > newbie questions on this list. Sure there are all kind of obstacles, but > > I can't accept that these can't be tackled. > > > > For the record I didn't think any of your questions were stupid. I also > commend your attitude :-) > > By the way, have you made any progress with this package? > > > Arch Linux, Fedora, Kxstudio etc etc has the NON packages, but Debian > > not... yeah! :) > > > > Agreed, we really ought to, especially since we're one of the only > distributions that still support i386, where a lightweight DAW like NON > might be the only one that performs adequately. Of course, it will also > be really useful for low-powered ARM devices after i386 is retired. > > > Ok back to business. Because no one else was taking up this package, I > > came up with this plan, which might make it possible for me (with the > > help of others) to get NSM packaged for Debian. > > > > 1) package only Non-Session-Manager (NSM) first > > > > 2) package it without dependency on NTK, but on FLTK only > > > > 3) See if you can get Non-Daw with NTK later in Debian. > > > > All this is only possible if I can get people help me. So I decided to > > just write a e-mail to debian-mentor and see what happens. > > > > Please ask questions, or ask for comments on your plan of action (put > "RFC" in front of the subject heading to notify people of this). The > approach "if I can get people to help me" isn't likely to go anywhere, > because it's almost always faster to do the work oneself then to review > someone else's work, and it takes even more time to come up with a plan > from scratch and explain "this is what I'd do, in this order, and this > is why (for each step)". > > Please ask questions, especially if you're stumped :-) If this a case of > not knowing where to start, that wouldn't be a stupid question either! > Because everyone has to start somewhere... > > > Cheers, > Nicholas > > P.S. Please reply "inline" aka: "interleaved" > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style > > P.P.S. I CCed you because it's been so long since the last post to this > thread. >
