Re: Getting a list of 2.18 new features

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 10:04 -0500, Mark Drago wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 22:56 +0100, Frederic Peters wrote:
> > Jason D. Clinton wrote:
> > 
> > > It seems to me that being able to easily build GNOME would go a long way 
> > > towards people knowing where we stand as a community during our development 
> > > cycles.
> > > 
> > > How is the work on that coming along?
> > 
> > It is doing fine, thanks for asking :)   Seriously there have been
> > very few glitches in 2.17 for the moment, notably thanks to frozen
> > external dependencies.
> > 
> > Unfortunately, this is just an answer to 'being able to build GNOME',
> > even without problems it is still a huge task, the best things would
> > be do have experimental packages (be it rpm or deb) for consumption,
> > we are not there (yet).
> > 
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> >         Frederic
> 
> Frederic,
> 
> I did some work on getting jhbuild to create RPM packages last year [1].
> While I didn't fully complete it at the time I am still interested in
> making this a reality.  I am curious to know who is working on this and
> how I might be able to help.  I have been building Gnome 2.17 with
> jhbuild with the idea that I would try to resurrect my previous work,
> but if someone else is actively working on it I would like to help them.
> 
we are planning, for the opensuse.org project, to use the Build service
(http://build.opensuse.org) to create packages from unstable GNOME. It
supports SuSE, Fedora, Debian and others in the future, so you might
want to join the mailing list (opensuse-buildservice opensuse org) and
join the GNOME packaging theme there.
-- 
Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>