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Subject: Re: Mass-packaging of 300 KDE application prepared - Help required
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 17:00:55 +0100
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To: John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
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Hi John,

John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au> skribis:

> On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 03:13:25PM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote:
>      Hi Hartmut,
>=20=20=20=20=20=20
>      Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com> skribis:
>=20=20=20=20=20=20
>      > as promised earlier, I prepared a repository inclusing patches for=
 more
>      > than 300 KDE packages. I will not have time to work on them, thoug=
h.
>      > Others will need to implement the packages based on this preperati=
ons.
>=20=20=20=20=20=20
>      [...]
>=20=20=20=20=20=20
>      > The repository can be found at
>      > <https://gitlab.com/htgoebel/guix-kde-package>, detailed descripti=
on on
>      > how to work with it is available ins the README there. If you have=
 any
>      > enhancement requests, please let me know.
>=20=20=20=20=20=20
>      Woow, impressive piece of work!
>=20=20=20=20=20=20
>      Thomas Danckaert is visibly interested in KDE ;-), so either Thomas =
or
>      others will cherry-pick from your repo.
>=20=20=20=20=20=20
> I suggest that 300 packages is too much for one person to do.

Yeah you=E2=80=99re right; I didn=E2=80=99t mean to suggest that Thomas wou=
ld handle all
of them.

> So if there is going to be a joint effort at this I suggest that somehow =
we
> decide in advance which packages are done by whom.
>
> I'm not sure how best to divide them up, since the lower dependencies wil=
l have
> to be done first.

I=E2=80=99m under the impression that it=E2=80=99s usually difficult to ass=
ign tasks to
us lazy volunteers.  ;-)

My guess is that people will incrementally pick the packages they=E2=80=99re
interested in from Hartmut=E2=80=99s repo.

We=E2=80=99ll see!

Ludo=E2=80=99.