Volunteer Packagers Needed for the PPA
Volunteer Packagers Needed for the PPA
The PPA is needing maintenance and an update especially for the upcoming v0.20 release. We need volunteers to help keep the PPA working that entails:
* Responding to bug reports filed on launchpad, forum, githubetc...
* Responding to notices from other maintainers or FC devs/triagers regarding packaging issues/quirks
* Opening/monitoring bugs to/in upstream repos especially in the Ubuntu/Debian ecosystem
I'd like to acknowledge the current maintainer kkremitzki, has done a great job + also joining the Debian Science team and helping to keep 3rdbparty deps up-to-date in the Debian ecosystem that trickles down to many other derivatives. And, we need more help.
Please respond to this thread if you have interest in this volunteer effort. Thank you!
* Responding to bug reports filed on launchpad, forum, githubetc...
* Responding to notices from other maintainers or FC devs/triagers regarding packaging issues/quirks
* Opening/monitoring bugs to/in upstream repos especially in the Ubuntu/Debian ecosystem
I'd like to acknowledge the current maintainer kkremitzki, has done a great job + also joining the Debian Science team and helping to keep 3rdbparty deps up-to-date in the Debian ecosystem that trickles down to many other derivatives. And, we need more help.
Please respond to this thread if you have interest in this volunteer effort. Thank you!
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- adrianinsaval
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Re: Volunteer Packagers Needed for the PPA
Until someone steps up it might be better to remove at least the 22.04 builds, people are wasting their time trying to run it
Re: Volunteer Packagers Needed for the PPA
Did you ever find new PPA Packager as here not much discussion about it.
Re: Volunteer Packagers Needed for the PPA
Not yet
CC @yorik
CC @yorik
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Re: Volunteer Packagers Needed for the PPA
I have no idea where to look... Basically what we need is someone to volunteer to take on the PPA. But not sure how to make that person appear
Re: Volunteer Packagers Needed for the PPA
Are we sure we need PPAs ? I've never liked them, too unreliable. FreeCAD already has AppImages, can be quite easily compiled from source ... what benefit would PPA give ? I vote for dropping them entirely: it's better to do few things well than many things badly.
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Re: Volunteer Packagers Needed for the PPA
+1 given the current state, they were useful for people running ubuntu when they worked well, now we even have the snap and flatpak if you don't like the inconvenience of the appimage. It just doesn't look like it's worth the trouble maintaining packages for 4 versions of ubuntu at a time (I don't run ubuntu so there is some bias here).
Re: Volunteer Packagers Needed for the PPA
Aren't snap packages integrated in the ubuntu app center now? In that case, indeed are PPAs still needed?
Re: Volunteer Packagers Needed for the PPA
There is a subset of users who have an aversion to Snap packaging. So I'd not give up on the PPA at all.
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Re: Volunteer Packagers Needed for the PPA
Case in point via @wandererfan https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=69858
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