adrian15 introduction
>As a new subscriber to the list, please consider writing a short, >introductory mail in which you let us know about your distro >involvement and (D)VCS experience. Hi, Distro involvement: I once modified a Fully Automatic Installation package for Ubuntu 8.10. I am trying to modify Debian's grub2 so that I can build super grub2 disk. So... I do not know any of the tools that make package development easier or faster. I just read wikis or ask in irc when I do not know how to do something. (D)VCS experience: === I have learnt how to use svn although I do not use it regularly. Even more, I have a free software project but I have not managed to save my changes in a version control system. I work offline. I plan to use git-svn or maybe only git so that things are easy but I am not quite sure. vcs-pkg.org involvement I have seen Madduck's introductory video to vcs-pkg on Debconf8. I have just attended to a vcs-pkg Birds of Feather (BoF) at Debconf9. 1) I see that we need is a package builder system that uses version control system capabilities underneath. (This is the conclusion I got by seeing debconf8's video). 2) I request Madduck to write the 4 point conclusion that he summarised at the Debconf9's BoF end so that I can have some material to work on. I have some ideas, hope that great ideas but I need these 4 points so that I can begin to work on it. You know, I am not deeply involved neither in package development nor in (d)vcs but I understand all these concepts from an outside point of view. I hope that my unique point of view might help you achieving your goals. (My goal is that the free software development community improves its software production speed and quality even faster than nowadays.) adrian15 -- Support free software. Donate to Super Grub Disk. Apoya el software libre. Dona a Super Grub Disk. http://www.supergrubdisk.org/index.php?pid=10 ___ vcs-pkg-discuss mailing list vcs-pkg-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/vcs-pkg-discuss
Self-introduction: Mikhail Gusarov & Sisyphus repository
Hello to all subscribers of this mailing list. I'd like to introduce myself: I'm involved in Sisyphus repository project [1] and also work for the company sponsoring it and making a Linux distributions using it -- ALT Linux [2]. Sisyphus is a RPM (one more variant of) -based packages repository, and for a three or four years git is used for storing the source code for packages in Sisyphus (but it is still a transition). There are several tools developed in course of Sisyphus, helping maintainers to keep source code in repositories. Until recently they were kept silently in various repositories of Sisyphus due to various reasons (nothing related to the secrety, but more due to carelesslness) without any publicity in English-spaking community, so I'd like to share some info about the tools in hope they will be helpful. In my free time I'm involved in Debian [1] and also in small Debian-inspired distro [2]. For the latter, there are plans to switch to source-package-less scheme using git-buildpackage+pbuilder. [1] http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=dottedmag%40dottedmag.net&comaint=yes [2] http://openinkpot.org/ -- pgpLmw4CSjxnd.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ vcs-pkg-discuss mailing list vcs-pkg-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/vcs-pkg-discuss
Re: Introduction
also sprach Asheesh Laroia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.08.19.2205 +0200]: > > Recently, I've been really enjoying messing with topgit and > > pristine-tar.. there's definate potential there, and I'm debating > > writing a new tool to better support that methodology for us crazy > > embedded folk :) I have a quick hack of a tg-rename here, by the way. > > It just updates the head & top-bases refs and zips through the branches, > > updating .topdeps for each, in case anyone wants such a thing. > > I think this would be great! I am sure upstream wouldn't mind the patch! :) -- martin | http://madduck.net/ | http://two.sentenc.es/ "science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." -- albert einstein spamtraps: [EMAIL PROTECTED] digital_signature_gpg.asc Description: Digital signature (see http://martin-krafft.net/gpg/) ___ vcs-pkg-discuss mailing list vcs-pkg-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/vcs-pkg-discuss
Re: Introduction
On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Chris Larson wrote: > Recently, I've been really enjoying messing with topgit and > pristine-tar.. there's definate potential there, and I'm debating > writing a new tool to better support that methodology for us crazy > embedded folk :) I have a quick hack of a tg-rename here, by the way. > It just updates the head & top-bases refs and zips through the branches, > updating .topdeps for each, in case anyone wants such a thing. I think this would be great! -- Asheesh. -- I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best. -- Oscar Wilde ___ vcs-pkg-discuss mailing list vcs-pkg-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/vcs-pkg-discuss
Re: Introduction
> Sorry for the disorganization of that intro, I tend to wander at times ;) Oh, and on a personal note, I'm an INTP personality type, and can tend to be a real bastard at times (just google for kergoth and see the various IRC logs for example...).. just as a warning :) -- Chris Larson clarson at kergoth dot com clarson at mvista dot com Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus Maintainer - Tslib Software Engineer MontaVista Software, Inc. ___ vcs-pkg-discuss mailing list vcs-pkg-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/vcs-pkg-discuss
Introduction
Greetings, I subscribed to the list a while back, but I don't believe I ever got around to introducing myself. My name is Chris Larson, but am most well known as Kergoth. I work in the embedded Linux field. I've done work on bootloaders, kernel, userland, distro, build tools, etc. I founded the OpenZaurus Linux distro for the Sharp Zaurus line of PDAs, and created the OpenEmbedded project, which was originally a portage fork. It exists because I got tired of gmake's limitations, and all of the existing distribution tools were limited, either lacking crosscompilation support, or expected to run the tools only -on- that distribution. I wanted a tool that would run anywhere, and could target any platform, and support multiple target packaging formats and distributions. The metadata repository is shared by multiple embedded distributions and projects, so in that aspect, the goal was quite similar to that of vcs-pkg.. collaboration. I've hacked on debian packages and tools, redhat packages and tools, and gentoo packages and tools, but never got around to pursuing actually becoming a developer for any (I know just how much time a distro can suck up..). Most of the OE target distros are debian based, as I found most debian distributionisms (I say that's a word, dangit) to be superior to redhat ones, and more stable than gentoo ones (i.e. interfaces(5)), though there are obvious exceptions. OE can output ipk, deb, or rpm files. Originally it could take either our metadata format or a source rpm as input (with a metadata conversion layer), but I doubt that's been maintained in my absence from the project (got burned out). I went a couple years without messing with distribution or build tools, but am finding my interest rekindled. On the source control front, I've experience using and maintaining CVS, svn, monotone, git, bk, svk, and a couple other types or repositories. Don't really know mercurial or bazaar, yet. I was the buildmeister / configuration management guy and a core developer of the Opie project (fork of Qtopia), also. Recently, I've been really enjoying messing with topgit and pristine-tar.. there's definate potential there, and I'm debating writing a new tool to better support that methodology for us crazy embedded folk :) I have a quick hack of a tg-rename here, by the way. It just updates the head & top-bases refs and zips through the branches, updating .topdeps for each, in case anyone wants such a thing. Sorry for the disorganization of that intro, I tend to wander at times ;) -- Chris Larson clarson at kergoth dot com clarson at mvista dot com Maintainer - Tslib Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus Software Engineer MontaVista Software, Inc. ___ vcs-pkg-discuss mailing list vcs-pkg-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/vcs-pkg-discuss
Introduction and first mail to the list
Hello, My name is Jeremiah Foster and I am an active debian user. I started to work with the debian-perl team about a year ago and continue to co-maintain some packages there and am maintaining a couple other packages for debian on my own. I am interested in this list because I think cross-distro co-operation in general is a very good idea and a versioning packaging system makes sense to me. I hope to lurk a bit, try to build a package or two with this format, and contribute when I get up-to-speed. Regards, Jeremiah ___ vcs-pkg-discuss mailing list vcs-pkg-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/vcs-pkg-discuss
Re: Introduction and vcs-pkg.org/people/ pages
also sprach Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.03.17.2143 +0100]: > The preview button didn't work when I was trying to make a page. This > confused me for a while, until I decided to just commit my "broken" > markup anyway and it worked fine. Bug reported. It's the table plugin. I suppose we can expect a fix in about 14 days, when ikiwiki 2.41 has been released (within four days) and then makes it to testing for me to backport. -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian developer, author, administrator, and user `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck - http://debiansystem.info `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems "all i know is that i'm being sued for unfair business practices by micro$oft. hello pot? it's kettle on line two." -- michael robertson digital_signature_gpg.asc Description: Digital signature (see http://martin-krafft.net/gpg/) ___ vcs-pkg-discuss mailing list vcs-pkg-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/vcs-pkg-discuss
Re: Introduction and vcs-pkg.org/people/ pages
also sprach Jesse Keating <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.03.17.2159 +0100]: > Also, the template has "Fedora" as a tag, but the front page is looking > for "fedora" as a tag. I changed my page manually. Fixed, although tags are case-insensitive, which I didn't know. -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian developer, author, administrator, and user `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck - http://debiansystem.info `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems officer, arrest that man! he's whistling a copyrighted song. digital_signature_gpg.asc Description: Digital signature (see http://martin-krafft.net/gpg/) ___ vcs-pkg-discuss mailing list vcs-pkg-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/vcs-pkg-discuss
Re: Introduction and vcs-pkg.org/people/ pages
On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 13:43 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > The preview button didn't work when I was trying to make a page. This > confused me for a while, until I decided to just commit my "broken" > markup anyway and it worked fine. Heh, I did the same. Also, the template has "Fedora" as a tag, but the front page is looking for "fedora" as a tag. I changed my page manually. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ vcs-pkg-discuss mailing list vcs-pkg-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/vcs-pkg-discuss
Re: Introduction and vcs-pkg.org/people/ pages
On 17:41 Mon 17 Mar , martin f krafft wrote: > I thus invite you all to surf on over to http://vcs-pkg.org/people/ > and create yourself a page. Please make sure to use the template > linked there, which IkiWiki should do for you, but I think I've hit > a bug. Well, it's all there on the page... > > If there are problems, please let me know. The preview button didn't work when I was trying to make a page. This confused me for a while, until I decided to just commit my "broken" markup anyway and it worked fine. Thanks, Donnie ___ vcs-pkg-discuss mailing list vcs-pkg-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/vcs-pkg-discuss
Introduction and vcs-pkg.org/people/ pages
Hi, As this list continues to grow (~70 people now), I am surely not the only one wondering who we all are. Specifically, since vcs-pkg is (supposed to be) a cross-distro effort, I am curious as to what other distros are currently represented and with whom we're all dealing. Instead of sending introductory mails to the list, I think it might be a good idea to have short blurps on the webpage, which are editable and stay around much better. I thus invite you all to surf on over to http://vcs-pkg.org/people/ and create yourself a page. Please make sure to use the template linked there, which IkiWiki should do for you, but I think I've hit a bug. Well, it's all there on the page... If there are problems, please let me know. (also, if someone wants to actually make the page template and CSS pretty, talk to me.) -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian developer, author, administrator, and user `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck - http://debiansystem.info `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems "an intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex." -- edgar wallace digital_signature_gpg.asc Description: Digital signature (see http://martin-krafft.net/gpg/) ___ vcs-pkg-discuss mailing list vcs-pkg-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/vcs-pkg-discuss
