Hi everyone.
I've been recently attempting to build iFolder on Fedora; am making
steady process but there are a number of bumps on the way. I thought I
would feed back my initial impressions while they are still fresh - my
experience is strongly that communities of developers coalesce much
quicker when the source is very easily buildable, because that's
basically the first hurdle.
First, iFolder and Simias don't seem to have had proper releases. There
are binaries available on the site, and source RPMs on the build system,
but don't appear to be any actual releases and the sources are unversioned.
Ideally, the "make dist" function of the build system would be
functional and working (it doesn't appear to be), and ordinarily you
wouldn't want the distribution to be autogen-based (you really want
/configure, make && make install). However, a good first step would be
simply making available source tarballs named after the versions (e.g.
ifolder-3.8.0.9266) and unpacking to the right directory, and having SVN
tagged appropriately (at the moment, working out what the tags are about
is tough).
Even more ideally, these would be the versions listed on the product
spec in the bug tracker ;)
Second, the information on the community website area is really hard to
access. Clicking on certain documents (e.g., "How to contribute") does
all sorts of bizarre things trying to open up frames (other documents
open in pop-ups?), and in the document areas every folder has "(0
unread)" against them - even though some have docs and I certainly
haven't read them. It's not very straightforward or easy.
Thanks
Alex.
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