From: Kai Stian Olstad <void+list@olstad.com>
To: voidlinux@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: contributing back to voidlinux
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2019 15:12:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <59e3d5d65019af636576a7e21def9fa9@olstad.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v9umvlch.fsf@disroot.org>
On 24.08.2019 13:41, Lugubris wrote:
> How can I contribute back to voidlinux?
Time in the sense of writing docs and create/update packages.
> I would help by managing a few packages, is there a quick guide for
> that?
A good start is
https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/
That has the following links
https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/blob/master/Manual.md
> Note that this is my first time trying to contribute back, also I don't
> have much knowledge on how linux packages work but I can look for
> updates from upstream and update the void repo when upstream marks as
> stable if thats easy enough.
It require a little more involvement than that, you should at a minimum
be able build the packages on your own machine.
But if you read the above documentation you will learn how to do that
and then the path to Void packaging is not that difficult.
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Kai Stian Olstad
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2019-08-24 11:41 Lugubris
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