I can assist in the GNOME packaging development - just not right now due to current demands.
~K --- On Thu, 4/9/09, Philip Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Philip Brown <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [csw-maintainers] For the gnome team > To: [email protected] > Date: Thursday, April 9, 2009, 9:02 PM > On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 02:34:10AM > +0200, Roger Håkansson wrote: > > I think think there is a need for some coordination > too. > > There is a lot of dependencies for the gnome packages > and in order to get > > them in sync with upstream there has to be some kind > of synchronized > > work. > > To have a need for synchronization, you first need > "multiple threads". > A single threaded operation, never needs > "synchronization". > (nor does 'zero threads' :-) > > Do we have two or more people currently working on > compiling GNOME > packages? > please speak up, because I'm not aware of many people > currently working in > parallel on this that need synchronization. > > > > Right now, we just have occasional, sporadic updates of low > level GNOME > packages, like glib. > Which is GREAT! But... we have no one i know of, who is > committing to build > the whole chain. > Or even a specific large PIECE of the chain. > We're just picking one one or two packages here and there. > > This effort can be self-organizing; the main "difficult" > step, is people > who are going to do the work. > When someone decides to do the work, then just announce, > "I'm building > these packages now". > There; problem of "synchronization" solved. > > > But what the heck, lets make it easier to remember who said > they're doing > what. > > http://wiki.opencsw.org/gnome > now exists, so that people planning to work on multiple > GNOME packages, can > let others know which ones are being worked on already. > > The gnome effort consists of basically two types of > components: > > 1. core libs (10 to 20?) > > 2. a plethora of "auxiliary stuff". > > > For anyone who needs/wants to work on gnome, the work flow > is relatively > straightforward. > > 1. Pick a gnome lib or two that you wish to work on, that > is out of date > (dont know what to pick? take a look through > http://wiki.opencsw.org/maintainers/kenmays > for packages with "lib" in the name, for > ideas)t > > > > 2. Take a look at its dependancies, and make sure they are > up to date. > If not, then work on its dependancies. > Otherwise, just update the lib that you > chose. > > If desired, return to step 1, and pick another package. > > > > -----Inline Attachment Follows----- > > _______________________________________________ > maintainers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers
