On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 02:06:56PM -0800, Omar Radwan wrote: > I wanna get into guix development. Since I don't know any programming, I would > be most useful in packaging software for guix. I want to package lxqt. I know > qt5 is in the guix repo. So it wouldn't be very hard to package it, I think. > But how do you package and upload software to the repo? Do I have to sign up > on > anything or get a gnu email or something?
Just try to package something and send the result for constructive criticism to the list. I would suggest to start with something simple, not a complete desktop environment. You may wish to have a look at https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/guix-ghm-andreas-20130823.pdf , where I explain how to create simple and slightly less simple packages. Andreas
