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So, I've been playing around with Enlightenement DR17 in its various releases for almost 2 years now. I can download CVS, I can make sure the software builds, even made RPMs for the low end libraries (trying to make enough RPMs to allow someone to use Entice, eRSS, etc. without having to pull CVS). Go me.
The problem is, I don't feel like I'm really contributing to the project. I am not proficient enough with C or C++ to really contribute code, tho I know enough to read tips from google, hack around makefiles, etc. One day, when I have time, I really want to be able to contribute that way, but I can't right now.
So, in the meantime... what can I do to help? Is code testing an option? If there were a list of things along the lines of "hey we have new code, try this, this and this, and see if it breaks. if it does, give us tracebacks" it would be helpful. The Pan newsreader did this awhile back, and I was able to beat it senseless for about a week, causing at least one release myself due to bugs I tracked down. :)
I use Red Hat/Fedora based systems, currently RH9, moving to Fedora Core 2 once it is released next month. Once I move in a couple months, I will have my computer lab again, and can test on other distros (or even other versions of Unix/BSD/etc, like FreeBSD or whatever).
Also, does anyone have a system setup or can point me to a place to find out how to make RPMs of CVS snapshots easily? I would be glad to set this up and maintain this, if only I had a good idea of how to start. Manually changing the spec files, tarring up new CVS directories, its not fun.
- -- Kyle Gonzales - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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