[GNC-dev] Launchpad

[Geert Janssens]

Steve,

It's nice to see you're willing to work on getting gnucash on launchpad.

>From my point of view this is completely disconnected from what the gnucash 
project itself does, so feel free to go about this as you like.

On the other hand I'm not really sure I understand the bit about the debian 
directory. From the GnuCash project's point of view this is not something to 
add in the gnucash git repository as it's distribution/packaging specific. You 
could set up a separate repository for this if you like. The GnuCash project 
currently maintains 3 like that as well: one each for packaging GnuCash on 
Windows, MacOS or Flatpak.

Lastly at this point I don't think we want to add yet another release target 
as part of the primary release process. But you're most welcome to take this 
on you and I appreciate your offer!

Regards,

Geert

Op maandag 31 december 2018 18:41:35 CET schreef Stephen M. Butler:
> Dev Team,
> 
> So far, three folks have either used or inquired about using the debian
> package for 3.4.  Marketing theory (no, I'm a software engineer by
> avocation) says that there are several more that would take advantage if
> it were more "supported".
> 
> Here are my thoughts:
> 
>  1. Both Ubuntu (Launchpad) and Debian request certain files in a
>     ~/debian folder.  Most of these appear to be copies of files the
>     application already has.  Perhaps a softlink could be put in the
>     debian folder that points to the original so that changes in the
>     original automatically show up in the folder.  Does this work via git?
>  2. I'm willing to coordinate the effort to build that folder (I presume
>     on the Master branch) but will need volunteers from more technical
>     folks from time-to-time to handle some of the techy stuff.  I know
>     the devs are busy squashing bugs so this would have to take a back
>     seat to that. 
>  3. Building this folder might even be beneficial to the official
>     packagers for the various distros.
>  4. One team for whom I did light testing, published a daily build (no
>     longer daily as the software matured) for the adventurous.
> 
>                  
> https://launchpad.net/~subsurface/+archive/ubuntu/subsurface-daily
> 
> I would be willing to push the files up to Launchpad if the team sees
> value in perusing this.  However, I don't want to step on anybodies toes
> if this would get in the way of the official release process for the
> various distros.  And, if this got to the point of highly automated,
> perhaps the dev team would prefer to do the push themselves.
> 
> --Steve