From: Andreas V. <li...@br...> - 2004-03-14 11:55:07
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Am Fri, 12 Mar 2004 07:56:37 -0500 schrieb Kyle Gonzales: Hi, ;-) > The problem is, I don't feel like I'm really contributing to the > project. I am not proficient enough with C or C++ to really > contribute code, tho I know enough to read tips from google, hack > around makefiles, etc. One day, when I have time, I really want to be > able to contribute that way, but I can't right now. > > So, in the meantime... what can I do to help? This is a good question. I would also like to help the enlightenment project. But I don't know where I could help. I'm a little experienced with programming C and C++, but getting involved with such a big project isn't easy. Translating apps and documentation is perhaps also possible I think. I observed the enlightenment website for a long time and I read here for some time. Everyday I look at the news page if there are new messages. My gentoo box has always the newest EFL ebuilds compiled and I use some E17 apps (e.g. iconbar). Sometimes I look at the webcvs and see how much active the E-people are. So nobody could say you're lazzy people! But I didn't understand the progress of each library and E itself. I read here in the hope to see why there is no E window manager. And there must be any reason! Why is there no status page with information how complete (percentage?) a library is? Why isn't it possible to start programming E? Which lib isn't finished and why? Please answer my questions. This is no flame! I really like to help and spend some time and other would to this also I think. > I use Red Hat/Fedora based systems, currently RH9, moving to Fedora > Core 2 once it is released next month. Once I move in a couple > months, I will have my computer lab again, and can test on other > distros (or even other versions of Unix/BSD/etc, like FreeBSD or > whatever). > > Also, does anyone have a system setup or can point me to a place to > find out how to make RPMs of CVS snapshots easily? I would be glad to > set this up and maintain this, if only I had a good idea of how to > start. Manually changing the spec files, tarring up new CVS > directories, its not fun. The newest EFL CVS snapshots are always in Gentoo Linux. The Gentoo package tool "ebuild" has an ability to create rpm-packages. I tried only simple apps with it, but they worked very vell for me. regards Andreas |