Xavier Bachelot wrote: > 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 the wiki, but it's often outdated or pointing at old versions of the 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 >
Hi am training myself to become a maintainer for the ubuntu systems. I have planned a half a day a week to learn all the steps. I now support a install script for ubuntu that works great. However most questions are around VBE, 3D MESO, and resolution problems. I still have not seen a good solution for all of this. Kind regards, Jelle _______________________________________________ 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
