Re: [gnome-love] video guide for gnome/jhbuild

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>]

On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Hashem <hnasarat gmail com> wrote:

I'd be interested in helping out. I redid some of the jhbuild tutorial pages on live.gnome.org in January, so I understand a bit. Would probably need some help on best-practices (i.e. smoke-testing and tarball installation).

That's great!  Thank you!  We can discuss on #gnome-hackers I think.  It might be good to have a regular irc meeting of other people who are also interested in building.  Then we can work through the issues and file bugs.

We should probably restrict ourselves to only the tarballs because it's just too unstable to use git head.  We can expand later, but let's fix the ones that are currently broken.
 

How much longer will jhbuild be recommended until ostree is ready? Is the transition scheduled yet?

I don't think that's going to happen anytime soon.  Colin wants to keep using jhbuild to keep at least things building up to GTK+.  I think that is so that we have a stable basis for the distro.

A proper tutorial for ostree would also be helpful, but we will need some volunteers to deal with that.  An overall build team would be really awesome if we can manage the volunteers.  We're at a cusp of a lot of cool and interesting things in the GNOME desktop and being able to have stable builds and images for people to test and give feedback is a big part of keeping the overall community interested.  It's the basic groundwork for a bigger volunteer effort.  So it's really important to get this working.

sri
 

On Sun 10 Feb 2013 04:22:13 PM EST, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:

Yes, sadly we don't have a video guide.  We do have a link for smoke
testing using the stable tarball releases.  But it's not quite as
smooth as I would like it.  There is still some brokenness.  Until we
can work out a repeatable process it's hard to have a video HOWTO.

We need a group of jhbuilders who will bug developers to fix broken
packages that don't build and also to maintain a jhbuild area that
will take notes on each build.

Any takers willing to take on this challenge?  I can help mentor as I
would like to see this happen.

sri


On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 9:28 AM, Carlos José Pereira

<carlao2005 gmail com <mailto:carlao2005 gmail com>> wrote:

    Hello good people,

    Would love to see something like this for gnome/jhbuild.....

    http://www.muktware.com/5183/video-guide-building-kde-aaron-seigo

    "
    There are many aspiring developers who want to help the growth of KDE,
    but they don't know how to build KDE from scratch. It's not just about
    make and make install. It's harder than that. I have seen many cases
    where an aspiring developer would seek info on how to build KDE and he
    would be point to some Wiki or othe guide which can be extremely
    technical in nature and less 'tutorial. Finally KDE lead Aaron Aaron
    Seigo has started a series of video tutorials on Youtube showing
    building process of KDE.
    "

    Have tried jhbuild a couple of times, without success...

    Best regards!
    Carlos

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