Hi Silvan,
I've followed your guideline.
I know that building a software package is not that simple. In my professional job, I'm software developer based on Unix/Linux since more than 30 years. So I'm confident that I can learn what to do.
Ciao,
Hans-Dieter
Hi Hans-Dieter,
you now have access to the webbuild interface with initial permissions to send packages to devel-contrib and devel-misc repositories.
You may create packages from urls or update current packages from repositories.
If you don't know where to start from to help, here is a list of (automatic) package updates failing:
https://openmamba.org/it/development/webbuild/?SHOWLOG=last&NUM=1&REP=0
These packages are managed in "autodist - update for x86_64" and changes applied by specfile patches.
Sorry there is not a guide for the interface and cannot write more details now.
Hi Silvan,
the failed package updates are the right thing for me to start -- debugging, what I've done so often.
Then, roll out of milestone4 could be a next goal.
On weekend, I'll try to start with first careful steps and learning.
I've also subscribed to the developers mailing list, so I think we can communicate that way in future.
I can't invest very much time, but I'll try to help where possible.
I hope that other people in the world who enjoy Openmamba read this and are encouraged to help.
Open Source is not a One-Way. If we get benefits from it, we should also contribute to it; which is not possible with Closed Source.
In tal senso,
Ciao,
Hans-Dieter
Hi Hans-Dieter,
fixing and maintaining current package updates is very important to keep the distribution alive but so far this activity has taken too much time to allow me to develop new things. So it will be good and very useful if you and others can help in this process which varies from very simple activities on some packages (just like updating the list of files packaged) to difficult ones (for instance chromium update).
I suggest to start with the webbuild, which should always be used as the base, but I should next provide ssh access to build vms for better debugging of build problems.
For you and anyone interested I've published a chart of the openmamba development model which I made some time ago which may be useful to know to developers:
As for details on using the webbuild for short questions you can use the "Chat with online developers" box in webbuild pages, so I can quickly give you some hints.
Thanks and best regards,
Silvan
Hi Silvan,
your chart gives me some more understanding. But I still can't manage to really work with the webbuild. I'm a command line developer of the old school, accustomed to use Makefiles, scripts, analyzing log files, cvs, svn, git, etc.
When I look at the failures in the last build log, then I think that I really need ssh access to see what happened and to be able to effectively help.
Ciao,
Hans-Dieter
