Hi,
probably you have read in the news that the development of openmamba is ceased.
The end of the project comes after 10 years of development, for the very large part done by its creator Silvan Calarco alone: he cannot sustain anymore all the work that mantain a whole distro requires.
I'll really love openmamba and so I'll do a request to all the community: we can try to find if there is a way to help openmamba to continue to live.
Does not matter how much you know of Linux, to mantain a distro the skills required are many and differents, so everyone can help with ideas, suggestions...and a lot of goodwill.
I can't deny that it's not a simple task and it will require commitment to do a good job, but if we are in many all will be easier.
If someone is interested can write ideas and his availability so we can start to work.
Thanks to all
Ciao tutti,
I'm Hans-Dieter from Germany. I was happy with Openmamba since years. I have ARM and x64 machines running with it. And now I'm sad to see it dying. If I can help to keep it alive in any way, please let me know. So, let us discuss. I have skills in Linux and more.
Tanti Saluti,
Hans-Dieter Kosch
Hi Hans-Dieter,
to let openmamba continue to live we need any kind of help, from packagers to beta tester so your help is really welcome.
If you've experience with packaging and compiling on Linux you can ask Silvan to become a packager and help mantain some RPM.
Regards,
Ercole
Hi Ercole,
I'm happy that you'll accept me. Openmamba gave me so much, and now I feel to give something back: That's Open Source!
I'm not yet very experienced in building packages. But I'm engineer and should be able to learn it 🙂
@Silvan: Would you trust me and give me developers access?
NB: In earlier times, I was developer member in the 'xine' linux video player project.
Viva Openmamba!
Salviamo!
Hans-Dieter
Hi Hans-Dieter,
please go to Development -> Webbuild -> buildvm01 (x86_64) from the top menu of this site.
On that page there should be a dialog stating that you may request authorization by clicking the appropriate button, then wait for my response.
Packaging for openmamba and using the web interface is not a self-explanatory thing and you will maybe need further instructions, but this is the first basic step.
Thanks.
Silvan
