[csw-maintainers] For the gnome team

[ken mays]

I can assist in the GNOME packaging development - just not right now due to current demands.

~K


--- On Thu, 4/9/09, Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com> wrote:

> From: Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com>
> Subject: Re: [csw-maintainers] For the gnome team
> To: maintainers at lists.opencsw.org
> Date: Thursday, April 9, 2009, 9:02 PM
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 02:34:10AM
> +0200, Roger Håkansson wrote:
> > I think think there is a need for some coordination
> too.
> > There is a lot of dependencies for the gnome packages
> and in order to get 
> > them in sync with upstream there has to be some kind
> of synchronized 
> > work.
> 
> To have a need for synchronization, you first need
> "multiple threads".
> A single threaded operation, never needs
> "synchronization".
> (nor does 'zero threads' :-)
> 
> Do we have two or more people currently working on
> compiling GNOME
> packages? 
> please speak up, because I'm not aware of many people
> currently working in
> parallel on this that need synchronization.
> 
> 
> 
> Right now, we just have occasional, sporadic updates of low
> level GNOME
> packages, like glib.
> Which is GREAT! But... we have no one i know of, who is
> committing to build
> the whole chain.
> Or even a specific large PIECE of the chain.
> We're just picking one one or two packages here and there.
> 
> This effort can be self-organizing; the main "difficult"
> step, is people
> who are going to do the work.
> When someone decides to do the work, then just announce,
> "I'm building
> these packages now".
> There; problem of "synchronization" solved.
> 
> 
> But what the heck, lets make it easier to remember who said
> they're doing
> what.
> 
> http://wiki.opencsw.org/gnome
> now exists, so that people planning to work on multiple
> GNOME packages, can
> let others know which ones are being worked on already.
> 
> The gnome effort consists of basically two types of
> components:
> 
> 1. core libs (10 to 20?)
>  
> 2. a plethora of "auxiliary stuff".
> 
> 
> For anyone who needs/wants to work on gnome, the work flow
> is relatively
> straightforward.
> 
> 1. Pick a gnome lib or two that you wish to work on, that
> is out of date
>  (dont know what to pick? take a look through
>        http://wiki.opencsw.org/maintainers/kenmays 
>    for packages with "lib" in the name, for
> ideas)t
> 
> 
> 
> 2. Take a look at its dependancies, and make sure they are
> up to date.
>    If not, then work on its dependancies.
>    Otherwise, just update the lib that you
> chose.
> 
>  If desired, return to step 1, and pick another package.
> 
> 
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