[Hamara-devel] An update

[Krishnakant]

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.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.