Hi all, Two points were raised in this thread that I feel might not have received enough attention. I'm going to try and float them once more. Please do tell me if I'm being too persistent.
1. Thomas has offered [1] his help in merging PRs if he is given more GitHub access. 2. Lex has agreed with me [2] that it might be a good idea to try and engage the users more in testing Geany, so as to reduce the risks in merging PRs. To that end, I have drafted up a tutorial [3] which may or may not help. Any further thoughts/actions on this? [1] http://lists.geany.org/pipermail/devel/2017-April/010237.html [2] http://lists.geany.org/pipermail/devel/2017-April/010248.html [3] https://wiki.geany.org/howtos/testing_git -- Vasiliy On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 2:40 PM, Lex Trotman <ele...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 29 April 2017 at 23:15, Vasiliy Faronov <vfaro...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 2:58 PM, Lex Trotman <ele...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> The vast majority are therefore not testing anything in master prior >>> to release, so they are not helping stabilise the release. Thats no >>> help. (Of course users are not expected to help stabilise the >>> release). >> >> By the way, I think it might be a good idea to call on users for more >> testing. > > Well, it can't hurt :) > >> >> Many of them must be technical people who wouldn't be scared by Git >> and may be interested in improvements. At least on Linux, it's >> (relatively) easy to build Geany from Git and run it with a copy of >> one's normal config. So it's easy and safe to try PRs out at least >> briefly. > > Yes, its only a "one-liner" (well it would be one line if the mailer > didn't wrap it :) after you have installed the prerequisites using > your package manager: > > mkdir /some/where/geany; cd /some/where/geany; > git clone https://github.com/geany/geany.git; cd geany; > ./autogen.sh --prefix=/some/where/geany; make install; > cd ../bin; ./geany -c ../config > > This keeps everything inside /some/where/geany, so you can delete it > all, and it doesn't affect any geany release you have installed in the > system location, doesn't need system privileges, doesn't overwrite > your home directory config, so you can mess with things to your hearts > content. It is preferred that you use a clean config for testing if > your normal Geany is an earlier version, but it then won't hurt to > copy your normal one to /some/where/geany/config afterwards. Remember > config is a directory. > > To avoid gitting it (waa waa) you can also use the nightly tarball > http::/download.geany.org/geany_git.tar.gz and you don't need the > Autotools stuff either. > > mkdir /some/where/geany; > > Then just use your browser to download and the GUI extractor that your > distro has to get the tarball and extract it into git_geany in > /some/where/geany. Or your favourite command line tools, but every > distro has a browser and an extractor. > > cd /some/where/geany/git_geany; > ./configure --prefix=/some/where/geany; > make install; cd ../bin; ./geany -c ../config > > We really should publish it as the basic process for building from git > and nightly, and a definitive list of dependencies and tools, the > README waffles on about all the GTK deps etc. makes it sound complex > but they should all be provided from your package manager, and it > doesn't mention libvte or that most tools will be provided by the > dev_basics packages, in fact actually doesn't ever cleanly list whats > needed. > > There is a nightly Deb package built which you could use, but it will > overwrite your system version of Geany (IIUC). > >> >> I mean, at the moment geany.org doesn't even mention testing in its >> "Contribute" sections. > > Well, a "Call for testers" on the front page would be better still, > (in flashing orange and purple striped text -- ok maybe not). > > Enrico, any comment? > > Cheers > Lex > >> >> >> -- >> Vasiliy >> _______________________________________________ >> Devel mailing list >> Devel@lists.geany.org >> https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.geany.org > https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel -- Vasiliy _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.geany.org https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel
