[Hamara-devel] being stuck in article on Getting Started on development

[shirish]

On Thursday 15 October 2015 12:36 AM, Vikas Tara wrote:

> Link to someone else's guide to dvd burning?

That's actually a big no-no. The reason why we want to have 
documentation in-house is that when and if a person needs it, we can 
help her/im . If we send her/im there then :-

a. There is possibility that we lose her/im at least for this session. 
We would want people to stay on our web-pages as far as possible. That 
is one way to get her/im in the funnel (for contributing anything to 
hamara).

b. Due to nature of the  web, pages get changed, moved, removed or the 
domain goes. We would have to add a bot or something to watch those 
pages, this is not a responsibility that we should take.

c. Documentation about free software is hard as changes are often. As we 
are talking about DVD burning, I vaguely remember a third-party 
GTK/GNOME 2 tool which was much talked about before Brasero (from GNOME 
people) and even in that Brasero didn't perform well for quite a long 
time. Even today the command-line tools on which Brasero is based 
perform much better, although also have to say Brasero now performs 
adequately but this is going beyond the topic a bit.

What I meant to say that we know what software we have in our archive 
and only we should talk of those as only those software we would support 
or be in a position to give support.

I hope I have given enough answers why it is better to have our own 
documentation (besides it would be easier to polish it as and when 
needed and have them printed, if needed.)

>
>> On the GNU/Linux way though, am stuck. Because before talking about
>> the software, thought about the ways and there are a multitude of
>> them, should I just tell about all of them in words or tell all and
>> choose one.
> Choose one for sure!
>>
>> Interestingly gnome-software looks good but somewhat half-baked and
>> software-center is nowhere to be found (think it is/was dumped).
> You mean https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Software ?
>
> I have looked into it a bit - I think I raised a bug for including it in
> hamara. Would like to do that at some point.
>

We are at the last stages of GNOME transition in unstable. See 
https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-gnome-maintainers/2015-October/122704.html

And in fact, G-S just landed in sid/unstable just now.

https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-gnome-maintainers/2015-October/122872.html

I am hoping all are aware of www.0d.be/debian/debian-gnome-3.18-status.html

This can be used to track where Debian is at with each package version 
number. Much easier to track.

-- 
Regards,
Shirish Agarwal,
Community Lead,
Hamaralinux.org