[Hamara-devel] An update

[Krishnakant]

On Tuesday 14 June 2016 06:37 PM, Vikas Tara wrote:
> On 25/05/16 13:20, Krishnakant wrote:
>>
>> On Wednesday 25 May 2016 05:25 PM, Vikas Tara wrote:
>>> On 25/05/16 11:08, Vikas Tara wrote:
>>>> On 24/05/16 18:53, Krishnakant wrote:
>>>>> On Tuesday 24 May 2016 09:20 PM, Vikas Tara wrote:
>>>>>> Hi Devs,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sorry it's been quiet for a while, a few of us have been busy on
>>>>>> commercial projects and that's led to us taking a bit of a hit here!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Anyway, by way of updates:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - I have updated hamara-repo-tools to support automatic building of a
>>>>>> stretch based repo. This means we can keep our sugam repo in sync
>>>>>> with upstream.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - Amar has created a new signing key and fixed the gpg error that
>>>>>> people see in the main hamara repo.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - We have replaced our previous (custom) method of pushing packages
>>>>>> into the repo with dupload
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - Raju has built packages for mint installer
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I will push the mint installer packages into the repo as soon as the
>>>>>> sync from upstream is complete.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The next tasks are then to:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - replace lxde with mate
>>>>>> - build a new iso.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As always, jump in here if you want to help!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Vik
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> When do you think we must start with the Mate build?
>>>> You can start it now - there are only small changes required in the
>>>> hamara sugam  meta packages - do you want to have a go?
>>> To be precise, this is the meta package:
>>> https://git.hamaralinux.org/hamara-developers/hamara-packages/tree/development-debian/hamara-packages/1.0/hamara-meta/debian
>>>
>> Abhijeet is looking into this as he had spoken with me earlier.  So we
>> can certainly get started.
>>
>> We will be releasing GNUKhata in early June so we certainly would have
>> it in Hamara Mate by default.
>
Release of GNUKhata version 3 happens tomorrow.
We just released an RC on 9th.
Once tomorrow's release is done, we will start working on the Mate spin.
I have informed Abhijeet to update the thread about this.
happy hacking.
Krishnakant.