Re: [DNG] Hello & Offer to help
On Mon, Jan 01, 2018 at 02:07:28PM +0100, Andreas Messer wrote: > Hello everybody, > > first of all, I wish you a happy new year! Yesterday I finished to migrate > my system from Debian stretch to Devuan ascii. I had a little struggle with > KDE5 shutdown/reboot buttons and USB mounting but finally solved this by > using > lightdm display manager. Hi Andreas, welcome back home. [cut] > Now, after using Linux based systems for quite a long time now I would like to > give something back and help Devuan. I think I could help with maintaining > some > packages. Please give an advice, which packages I could start with or maybe > which > ones are important. Another idea I have is to spend some work on consolekit. > When > strugling with the KDE5 shutdown/reboot buttons I figured out that the > "ck-launch-session" command from consolekit seems to be buggy. But the > original > consolekit is not developed anymore because of systemd's logind. I have found > that there is a consolekit2 fork of original consolkit which is still alive > and maybe > it makes sense to have such a package in Devuan? It should fix the problems > with > ck-launch-session. Or is it better to go on with elogind? There was some > discussion > in forums about elogind but I'm unsure if this is already going to be added as > package to Devuan by someone else. IMHO elogind looks more promising as an alternative, but the more alternatives the better. I guess we should make an effort to include at least one of elogind/consolekit2 (or possibly both) in Beowulf. So if you want to help on either you are more than welcome > > So if you think I can help please give me an advice were to start and maybe > which > packages are required/needed to be handled. What do you think of consolekit2 > package. > See above. A good place to start getting info about the Devuan package maintainance workflow is: https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=549 And a good place to get in touch with devs is to join the #devuan-dev channel on freenode. There is also a devuan-dev mailinglist: https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devuan-dev HTH KatolaZ -- [ ~.,_ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ - Devuan -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ "+. katolaz [at] freaknet.org --- katolaz [at] yahoo.it ] [ @) http://kalos.mine.nu --- Devuan GNU + Linux User ] [ @@) http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~vnicosia -- GPG: 0B5F062F ] [ (@@@) Twitter: @KatolaZ - skype: katolaz -- github: KatolaZ ] signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
[DNG] Hello & Offer to help
Hello everybody, first of all, I wish you a happy new year! Yesterday I finished to migrate my system from Debian stretch to Devuan ascii. I had a little struggle with KDE5 shutdown/reboot buttons and USB mounting but finally solved this by using lightdm display manager. Anyway, being a long term Debian user, I decided to switch to Devuan because of many unstabilities and black magic happening since Debian stretch. Probably lots of this was related to systemd software bunch incoporating everything which was a separate software package before. But don't get it wrong, I do not dislike systemd as init system itself, just the fact that more and more things are merged into it, making everything else depending on it and making decisions how my system should behave without even telling me. There are some similar alternatives, maybe jobd/launchd is worth a try. Now, after using Linux based systems for quite a long time now I would like to give something back and help Devuan. I think I could help with maintaining some packages. Please give an advice, which packages I could start with or maybe which ones are important. Another idea I have is to spend some work on consolekit. When strugling with the KDE5 shutdown/reboot buttons I figured out that the "ck-launch-session" command from consolekit seems to be buggy. But the original consolekit is not developed anymore because of systemd's logind. I have found that there is a consolekit2 fork of original consolkit which is still alive and maybe it makes sense to have such a package in Devuan? It should fix the problems with ck-launch-session. Or is it better to go on with elogind? There was some discussion in forums about elogind but I'm unsure if this is already going to be added as package to Devuan by someone else. So if you think I can help please give me an advice were to start and maybe which packages are required/needed to be handled. What do you think of consolekit2 package. cheers, Andreas -- gnuPG keyid: 8C2BAF51 fingerprint: 28EE 8438 E688 D992 3661 C753 90B3 BAAA 8C2B AF51 signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
