[Hamara-devel] An update

[Krishnakant]

On Tuesday 14 June 2016 07:05 PM, imasdekar at dff.org.in wrote:
> On 2016-06-14 13:28, abhijith wrote:
>> On Tuesday 14 June 2016 06:54 PM, Krishnakant wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>> I would like to involve in the release of Sugam as soon as possible. I
>> will start looking into this right after the release of GNUKhata 
>> version 3.
>>>
>>>
> Even the other DFF team members will be actively involved in the 
> release of sugam once GNUKhata release is done tomorrow(15-06-2016).


Well this is wonderful.
We have kind of a team behind this now.
Can some one inform the Dff guys about the current status on Mate inclusion?
Has some work been already done by Raju or some other developer?
or do we have to start from Scratch.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.