Hey Alain, I've been trying to help with pantheon de on Fedora as well.Nice to know someone who has experience with vala /gtk helping , I've started to learn Vala but wil take some time to get to a stage where I can help with the apps themselves. Looking forward to working together . Thanks for helping, Harsh
On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 11:29 PM Alain Vigne <alain.vigne...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Fabio > > I am not very active, and not a software engineer, but Vala/GTK > applications are kind of my hobby, and I had the opportunity to take a look > at elementary applications (code wise too). > You are maintaining much more packages I can ever pretend to maintain, so > this will be a little help. > But I am ready to lend a hand, if I can get some guidance, milestones, and > if we can work together... ? > > I am CET time zone based. Do you work from the USA ? > > My FAS is: avigne. > Keep me posted. > BR, Alain > > > On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 9:30 PM Fabio Valentini <decatho...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi everybody, >> >> With more responsibilities (FPC, Stewardship SIG, FESCo) and the >> ever-growing number of packages I maintain, I don't have as much time >> for the things I originally started my contributions to fedora with - >> the Pantheon desktop and the accompanying elementary applications. >> >> What makes things worse is that I am not particularly proficient with >> Vala or C/GObject, other than including upstream patches or doing >> simple backports. That means some issues are punted until upstream >> projects get around to fixing them (and if these issues are only >> affecting "third-party" distros like fedora, that can take a while). >> >> Also, the fact that GNOME frequently (almost with every new major >> stable release, which means with almost every fedora release) breaks >> something - either subtly or not - does not help. >> gnome-settings-daemon changes its DBus interfaces almost every >> release. mutter makes sweeping API changes almost every release. Both >> gala and the elementary LightDM greeter can't keep up with upstream >> mutter, and are basically still stuck on mutter 3.28 support (which is >> why there is a mutter328 compat package) ... >> >> Overall, this results in the quality of all these packages not being >> as high as I would like it to be (though it's still pretty good, all >> things considered). In particular, there are some components that are >> more "crashy" than the rest, and I don't have the time and skill to >> get deep into debugging the issue in most cases: >> >> - wingpanel (the panel for Pantheon); issues in individual indicators >> also crash the whole app because they are just dlopen()ed >> - switchboard (the settings application); issues in individual >> settings panels also crash the whole app because they are just >> dlopen()ed >> - gala (the window manager): obviously bad if the WM crashes, though >> not as bad because it's still an Xorg session >> - plank (the dock); also optionally used on XFCE (I think) >> - sequeler (third-party SQL client developed for Pantheon) >> >> I would greatly appreciate if somebody who knows their GObject-fu >> could help me out here. >> >> The elementaryOS upstream developers are usually helpful and accept >> patches - even for things that are not a problem on elementaryOS, so >> long as they can be switched on/off with e.g. conditional compilation. >> But reported issues - that only affect fedora - without attached >> patches / PRs are obviously low priority for them, and often sit >> untouched for months or years. >> >> In general, I manage to keep the packages for Pantheon / elementary >> projects up-to-date. Having set up "nightly" builds on COPR a few >> years ago really helps to catch potential issues early. >> >> If anybody is interested, here are some pointers: >> >> - all packages are tracked in koschei, in the decathorpe/elementary group: >> https://koschei.fedoraproject.org/groups/decathorpe/elementary >> >> - nightly builds are done on COPR: >> https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/decathorpe/elementary-nightly/ >> >> Thanks, >> Fabio >> _______________________________________________ >> devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org >> Fedora Code of Conduct: >> https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ >> List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines >> List Archives: >> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org >> > > > -- > Alain V. > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org >
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