[Hamara-devel] An update

[Vikas Tara]

On 14/06/16 16:30, Vikas Tara wrote:
> On 14/06/16 15:10, Krishnakant wrote:
>>
>> 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?
> Nobody has started on Mate yet - but it's a pretty simple job.
>
> See my earlier post about the meta package - changes just need to be
> made there - remove the lxde packages and add the mate ones.
>
> You could look at the meta package of any other distro that ships with
> mate as the defauly desktop - the meta package entries would be very
> similar.
Has anyone at dff started on this? If not, I am planning to pick it up
this evening