Karma++ Wonderfully summarized!
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 11:29 PM, Nandaja Varma <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello, > > This is the first bit from Debian-Diaspora team and what better time to > send it than now, when we are only 35% away from reaching our goal of > packaging Diaspora for Debian. More that 100 Rubygem packages built by > Debian-Diaspora team has already hit the Debian repo. But we still have a > long way to go and we could definitely use some more helping hands (for > more info, see bottom). > > I would like to congratulate all the package maintainers from > Debian-Diaspora team. You guys rock! Here is our wonderful team: > > Praveen Arimbrathodiyil > Cedric Boutillier > Vasudev Kamath > Markus Tornow > Sana Khan > Vamsee Kanakala > Anish Sheela > Srihari K > Nandaja Varma > Jishnu Mohan > Hemanth H. M. > Hrishikesh K. B > Balasankar C. > and much more people, to be added later (sorry) > > This project was started 6 months ago by Praveen Arimbrathodiyil to make > it easier for Debian users to install Diaspora via their terminal without > worrying about the dependencies. This involves packaging all the Rubygems > on which diaspora is depending upon, that is exactly 155 Rubygems out of > which we have packaged 101 gems already. > > Initially we followed this almost perfect piratepad document > http://piratepad.net/tu0H1eU2vH , created by Praveen Arimbrathodiyil and > Cedric Boutillier. We could make a head start with Rubygem packaging with > the help of this document without any prior knowledge on packaging. Cedric > Boutillier started maintaining a graph ( > http://people.debian.org/~boutil/diaspora/ ), pictorially representing > the state of all Rubygems diaspora is depending upon. The graph gets > updated everyday. This helped us keep track of our project status. > Alongside, Markus Tornow started maintaining a wiki page on Diaspora > packaging (http://wiki.debian.org/Diaspora/Packaging ) which includes a > neat description of packaging procedures including all the gotchas one > might encounter. The wiki is still growing and soon will reach an almost > perfect state. :) > > As the project progressed, it became hard to analyze the project status > from the graph only, so Anish Anil Kumar made a web page ( > http://vps.aneesh.nl/diaspora.html ) that lists all the Rubygems required > by Diaspora along with its current status, like packaged, unpackaged, ITP > filed etc. The page also includes a progress bar that displays the current > status of the project clearly. The page is being updated automatically > everyday. > > Packaging gets a little bit challenging when it comes to the testing part > of Rubygems. To solve this issue, Vamsee and Hemanth have the idea of > making the tests more automated by modifying gem2deb, the suite we use for > packaging Rubygems. > > We usually push the packages to the debian-diaspora repo in gitorious ( > https://gitorious.org/debian-diaspora ). One can find our work there. > > Like one can refer from the progress bar ( > http://vps.aneesh.nl/diaspora.html ), for this project to reach a clean > 100% we have 54 gems left to be packaged. So we are going to need more > contributors to reach our goal as soon as possible. Packaging a Rubygem is > actually quite easy and interesting. If anybody is interested in packaging > and would like to contribute to Debian-Diaspora project our wiki page ( > http://wiki.debian.org/Diaspora/Packaging ) is the best place to start > with. You can refer the piratepad document ( > http://piratepad.net/tu0H1eU2vH ) as well. You can always find any one of > us at #debian-dispora irc channel in OFTC network for online help ( > http://client00.chat.mibbit.com/?channel=%23debian-diaspora&server=irc.oftc.net > ). > So drop in at our IRC channel whenever you can (preferably during weekends > after 3.30PM GMT, 9PM Indian time) and get started. :) > > > -- > Regards, > Nandaja Varma > http://nandajavarma.wordpress.com > -- *'I am what I am because of who we all are'* h3manth.com <http://www.h3manth.com> *-- Hemanth HM *
