On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 09:32, Andrea Cascio andrea@nucleus.it 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. :(
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?
Sincerely Andrea Cascio
Hi Andrea, welcome to Trinity!
There are a lot of projects that I have on the OBS, but half of them are unmaintained, so don't go by them ;)
I've been working on getting much of my work up to speed and working again after my dev machine crashed. I thought that I would be able to retrieve a lot of my work, but that didn't happen as much as I thought to plan >_>;;.
I made a branch on the Trinity Desktop tde-packaging git, you can check it out on the suse branch. I'll be updating it as I get to packages. There are handy macros if you want to help :) I've been taking them from the KDE:KDE3 repo and restructuring the packages, removing old/obsoleted patches and other cruft.
I upload them from the GIT to the OBS when I have time. If you need me to upload anything for building, feel free to ask :) (osc build is a good option though >_>)