On Wednesday 16 November 2011 09:32:08 am Andrea Cascio wrote:
Hi,
I've recently subscribed to Trinity mailing lists, and would like to
introduce myself.
As many others here, I'm a long time KDE user. I don't want to rant about
the current state of KDE4; let's just say that now I feel no more "at
home"
in KDE community.
I like the ideas and spirit of the Trinity project, so I would like to
offer some help in my spare time... which is unfortunately very few. :(
A lot of us can relate to that. Most of us don't want to use KDE4 for one
reason or another, and we can't sit wide-eyed and drooling at the computer as
much as we'd like ;-)
But anyway, at work I maintain a minimal,
server-oriented openSUSE derivate
distribution, so I know how to manage RPMs, specfiles, and building
problems. And I've also worked to projects both in C and C++ some years
ago, so I hope to contribute some bug squashing too.
I would like to help with RPM packaging for openSUSE.
In the OBS site I've found the projects by Robert Xu. Are there other
efforts or other people working on it? May I ask what is the current state,
and how can I help?
Robert would be the one to ask about the openSUSE packages. From what I've
seen, his OBS always seems struggling with one issue or another. Even if he
has it working, I'm sure he could use the help. We also have a few people
trying to get packages going for several other RPM-based distros, if you
don't mind helping with those.
Bug squashing and testing is also welcome. Once the migration from svn to git
is done, development should start for the next release.
There's normally a monthly developer meeting on Freenode IRC. The last one was
a few days ago, so the next one should be in December. It hasn't been
scheduled yet, but it would be a good idea to attend to help stay up-to-date
on the latest goals and provide your own feedback.
--
Kristopher Gamrat
Ark Linux webmaster
http://www.arklinux.org/