Re: Meld is moving to GNOME GitLab

[Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com>]

On 11 December 2017 at 17:36, Youssef A. Abou-Kewik
<youssef adnan gmail com> wrote:
> Kai,
>
> There’s a big part of the OSX fork that is still manual. Mainly preparing
> the jhbuild tool chain and all the dependencies.

I'll be honest... I didn't realise that that fork was still active.
I'm very glad to hear that it is!

> According to github download counts, my pre-built binaries have been
> downloaded about 100,000 times. That is a large user base. To be honest I’m
> unable to support it properly. But I tend to fix what I can when I have
> time.

Believe me, I understand!

> I don’t know how/who can help. Likely I need help from the people
> maintaining jhbuild so that I can automate the build process properly (do we
> have any on this mailing list?)

I don't think GNOME has OSX build machines, but I may be wrong about that.

> I would love to push the final modifications
> upstream and not stay as a fork at some point.

> From memory, a fair few of your changes were platform-specific fixes
that I could pull in without too much hassle, so if you have the time
to break some of that out, I'll be happy to pull them in. My only real
concern here is that whatever change we merge should ideally not break
existing OSX setups like Brew or similar.

One piece of good news is that I have very recently acquired an
extremely old macbook that should be usable for an occasional build
machine. I'm just having some issues getting it reimaged/setup/etc.

> Is it possible to fork on gnome’s gitlab by the way?

It is, and a normal PR-style workflow is (I believe) available.

cheers,
Kai