[Openchrome-users] Call for packagers

[Jelle de Jong]

Xavier Bachelot wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Packagers and wannabe packagers, the openchrome project needs your help 
> ! The driver is slowly but surely improving and getting in a better 
> shape, but the users' mailing list and the irc channel are still full of 
> basic user question related to compilation of the driver. This can and 
> should be avoided, first because it raises the entry cost for new and 
> often non-technical users (no offense intended) and also because it 
> wastes developers/contributors time that could be used to enhance the 
> documentation or other things more useful in the long run.
> 
> We used to and are still maintaining a 'contributed binaries' page in 
> the wiki, but it's often outdated or pointing at old versions of the 
> driver. It would be much better to package and maintain the driver as 
> official packages inside the various distributions around. This brings 
> numerous advantages. The users don't have to search the web for packages 
> and get them directly from their distribution's repositories without 
> additional configuration. The driver is more easily available in the 
> wild and gets better exposure and testing.
> 
> This mail is primarily targeted at all the good people that used to and 
> are still maintaining the packages that are linked from the 'contributed 
> binaries' page. Thanks a lot for your work, it is greatly appreciated. I 
> would just ask you to go a step further and get in touch with the 
> maintainers of your distro of choice and do your best to have the 
> openchrome driver included and maintained inside of it. There is also 
> obviously some room for new packagers ;-)
> 
> Thanks a lot for your attention and feel free to ask for help, I went 
> down this road already for Fedora/RHEL, it is not as hard as it may 
> sound and there's a lot to learn along the road.
> 
> Regards,
> Xavier
> 

Hi am training myself to become a maintainer for the ubuntu systems. I 
have planned a half a day a week to learn all the steps.

I now support a install script for ubuntu that works great. However most 
questions are around VBE, 3D MESO, and resolution problems. I still have 
not seen a good solution for all of this.

Kind regards,

Jelle