[Roadster] help me help you

[Ian McIntosh]

Hi Forrest,

I agree that it's too hard to get Roadster working.  I think a
combination of removing features/dependencies and some build-file magic
would help make things easier.  Also moving to sqlite would be a big
help.

To aid in communication, what do you think about starting up an IRC
channel for Roadster?

For now I invite you all to join/idle in:

#roadster on irc.freenode.net

We'll start with making it easier to build Roadster, and move from
there.

-Ian

On mar, 2006-07-18 at 22:43 -0400, Forrest Loomis wrote:
> Well, I first want to say:  Roadster looks amazing!  It is the
> absolute most attractive gps program that is avaiable for linux --
> free or not.
> 
> However, I say that purely from the screenshots, as I am completely
> incapable of getting it to run.  I can compile it with the gmemchunk
> to slice patch posted to the mailing list last month, but the GUI is
> unresponsive. 
> 
> Anyways, I have some time on my hand and would like to help out with
> development of roadster.
> Where to start?
> 
> I heard recently that there is some desire for roadster to be broken
> up into a backend library -- libroadster? and from there making it
> easy to make a front end in any high level language one would desire. 
> So... where should I focus my efforts?
> 
> Also have any thoughts been given to try and rally developers to the
> project?  Maybe a wiki, where people could show how to get what is
> currently done working, and what is currently being worked on and by
> whom.  It seems to work for other projects, maybe roadster could get
> some help from it? 
> 
> Anyways, I would like to see this project take off, or at least get to
> a usable state.  It looks amazing in the screenshots, I guess its just
> broken now?
> 
> I look forward to hearing from some subscribers.
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