Hi all, Packagers and wannabe packagers, the openchrome project needs your help ! The driver is slowly but surely improving and getting in a better shape, but the users' mailing list and the irc channel are still full of basic user question related to compilation of the driver. This can and should be avoided, first because it raises the entry cost for new and often non-technical users (no offense intended) and also because it wastes developers/contributors time that could be used to enhance the documentation or other things more useful in the long run.
We used to and are still maintaining a 'contributed binaries' page in the wiki, but it's often outdated or pointing at old versions of the driver. It would be much better to package and maintain the driver as official packages inside the various distributions around. This brings numerous advantages. The users don't have to search the web for packages and get them directly from their distribution's repositories without additional configuration. The driver is more easily available in the wild and gets better exposure and testing. This mail is primarily targeted at all the good people that used to and are still maintaining the packages that are linked from the 'contributed binaries' page. Thanks a lot for your work, it is greatly appreciated. I would just ask you to go a step further and get in touch with the maintainers of your distro of choice and do your best to have the openchrome driver included and maintained inside of it. There is also obviously some room for new packagers ;-) Thanks a lot for your attention and feel free to ask for help, I went down this road already for Fedora/RHEL, it is not as hard as it may sound and there's a lot to learn along the road. Regards, Xavier _______________________________________________ openchrome-users mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.openchrome.org/mailman/listinfo/openchrome-users Main page: http://www.openchrome.org Wiki: http://wiki.openchrome.org User Forum: http://wiki.openchrome.org/tikiwiki/tiki-view_forum.php?forumId=1
