On Mon, Jan 01, 2018 at 02:07:28PM +0100, Andreas Messer wrote: > Hello everybody, > > first of all, I wish you a happy new year! Yesterday I finished to migrate > my system from Debian stretch to Devuan ascii. I had a little struggle with > KDE5 shutdown/reboot buttons and USB mounting but finally solved this by > using > lightdm display manager.
Hi Andreas, welcome back home. [cut] > Now, after using Linux based systems for quite a long time now I would like to > give something back and help Devuan. I think I could help with maintaining > some > packages. Please give an advice, which packages I could start with or maybe > which > ones are important. Another idea I have is to spend some work on consolekit. > When > strugling with the KDE5 shutdown/reboot buttons I figured out that the > "ck-launch-session" command from consolekit seems to be buggy. But the > original > consolekit is not developed anymore because of systemd's logind. I have found > that there is a consolekit2 fork of original consolkit which is still alive > and maybe > it makes sense to have such a package in Devuan? It should fix the problems > with > ck-launch-session. Or is it better to go on with elogind? There was some > discussion > in forums about elogind but I'm unsure if this is already going to be added as > package to Devuan by someone else. IMHO elogind looks more promising as an alternative, but the more alternatives the better. I guess we should make an effort to include at least one of elogind/consolekit2 (or possibly both) in Beowulf. So if you want to help on either you are more than welcome > > So if you think I can help please give me an advice were to start and maybe > which > packages are required/needed to be handled. What do you think of consolekit2 > package. > See above. A good place to start getting info about the Devuan package maintainance workflow is: https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=549 And a good place to get in touch with devs is to join the #devuan-dev channel on freenode. There is also a devuan-dev mailinglist: https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devuan-dev HTH KatolaZ -- [ ~.,_ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ - Devuan -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ "+. katolaz [at] freaknet.org --- katolaz [at] yahoo.it ] [ @) http://kalos.mine.nu --- Devuan GNU + Linux User ] [ @@) http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~vnicosia -- GPG: 0B5F062F ] [ (@@@) Twitter: @KatolaZ - skype: katolaz -- github: KatolaZ ]
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