On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 18:31:36 +0100 Sprow wrote: > Hi, > In a couple of recent posts to the netsurf-users mailing list, and notes > from > ticket master Vincent, it's been noted there's no RISC OS maintainer at > present in particular. > > Is there a definition somewhere of what's involved? > > For example: If it's responding to port specific tickets within ~2 weeks > and > maybe fixing 1 bug-a-month then that's probably background enough for one > person to handle. If it involves writing lots of new code then that > clearly > needs a much bigger commitment. ie. it's maintenance in the car sense of > "keeping something running that already runs". > > After some invaluable hand holding from Rob Kendrick (I failed to locate > the > instructions to set up a VM to build for RISC OS) I went ahead and wrote > patches for > > http://bugs.netsurf-browser.org/mantis/view.php?id=2266 > http://bugs.netsurf-browser.org/mantis/view.php?id=2170 > http://bugs.netsurf-browser.org/mantis/view.php?id=2336 > http://bugs.netsurf-browser.org/mantis/view.php?id=2289 > > but they presumably need reviewing. I know from a day job in engineering > not > to review my own code!
The RISC OS specific tasks don't seem all that onerous at the moment, although perhaps I haven't been looking hard enough. But if two of us contribute, it should be even better! Dave ____________________________________________________________ FREE 3D EARTH SCREENSAVER - Watch the Earth right on your desktop! Check it out at http://www.inbox.com/earth
