Woof at Github
Posted: Wed 13 Nov 2013, 05:32
Dear Puppians,
the last few years we have seen a lot of great Puppy work going undocumented end eventually lost or (unnecessarily) duplicated.
Countless fixes can (?can they?) be found in the forum but only few of them landed in woof, while entire projects never made it. Like jemimah's, elroy's, geoffrey's and rg66's work on Saluki and XFCE-derivatives or
Jejy69's and peebee's work on Lxpup and LXDE derivatives and many-many other post-woof projects.
In the mean time, Barry Kauler announced that as far as he is concerned woof is in maintenance mode, making it unlikely that any of these changes will land in the woof tree.
So we (me, 01micko and pemasu - we welcome new members in the team) just opened a project on Github to host woof as derived from Barry's repo on November 11, 2013.
This is not an attempt to take over puppy or corral the wild cats that are roaming in it but rather provide a place for people who want to develop woof-based pupplets, to
a) have a starting point and
b) feed their changes back to the community
so the next person can see, understand, use and improve upon.
So if you want to contribute in woof-CE (community edition) familiarize yourself a bit with git, open an account at Github, get the basics down (see here for a practical howto) and start collaborating your changes.
Just let me stress out that probably the most important aspect of Git in a collaborative project is quality of the commit messages.
Makes everybody's life much easier understanding what and why was changed and helps finding it 6 months and 500 commits later…
Happy woofing.
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Pet developers please look here if you would like to help and get your pets updated
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Latest woof-CE builds
Jun 7:Puppy Tahr 5.8.0.8 from the latest woof-CE testing branch
Apr 25:Precise and Wheezywith 3.13.9 kernel
Mar 9: The first "official" woof-CE build Slacko-5.7, is out
Feb 6:Slacko64-5.8.8 The 64bit woof-build puppy
Dec 9: Dpup Wheezy 3.5.2.11
.
the last few years we have seen a lot of great Puppy work going undocumented end eventually lost or (unnecessarily) duplicated.
Countless fixes can (?can they?) be found in the forum but only few of them landed in woof, while entire projects never made it. Like jemimah's, elroy's, geoffrey's and rg66's work on Saluki and XFCE-derivatives or
Jejy69's and peebee's work on Lxpup and LXDE derivatives and many-many other post-woof projects.
In the mean time, Barry Kauler announced that as far as he is concerned woof is in maintenance mode, making it unlikely that any of these changes will land in the woof tree.
So we (me, 01micko and pemasu - we welcome new members in the team) just opened a project on Github to host woof as derived from Barry's repo on November 11, 2013.
This is not an attempt to take over puppy or corral the wild cats that are roaming in it but rather provide a place for people who want to develop woof-based pupplets, to
a) have a starting point and
b) feed their changes back to the community
so the next person can see, understand, use and improve upon.
So if you want to contribute in woof-CE (community edition) familiarize yourself a bit with git, open an account at Github, get the basics down (see here for a practical howto) and start collaborating your changes.
Just let me stress out that probably the most important aspect of Git in a collaborative project is quality of the commit messages.
Makes everybody's life much easier understanding what and why was changed and helps finding it 6 months and 500 commits later…
Happy woofing.
====================================
Pet developers please look here if you would like to help and get your pets updated
====================================
Latest woof-CE builds
Jun 7:Puppy Tahr 5.8.0.8 from the latest woof-CE testing branch
Apr 25:Precise and Wheezywith 3.13.9 kernel
Mar 9: The first "official" woof-CE build Slacko-5.7, is out
Feb 6:Slacko64-5.8.8 The 64bit woof-build puppy
Dec 9: Dpup Wheezy 3.5.2.11
.