[haiku-development] Re: System Soundfont

  • From: James Leone <linuxcpa@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 21:14:46 -0700

I know what Haiku ports is. Wow 20 members. Impressive.

I know how to patch.






On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 4:31 PM, scottmc <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>> If it is yes, I think Haiku needs to put in place a strategy for package
>> creation that involves the community.
>> Something like what the Debian Project does.
>> Multiple people could compile and package applications they have
>> volunteered to take responsibility for.
>> But only as much as they can manage.
>>
>>
> We do this, it's called HaikuPorts (http://www.haikuports.org).  We have
> 20+ members who make package recipes.  If you can't figure out all the
> minute details we have a mailing list there as well where you can ask
> questions.  If you are still stumped and don't want to lose the work you
> have put into it you can create a new issue there and attach you work to it
> and maybe someone will pick it up and help you out, or finish the work.
>
> We participated in Google Code-In the last four years and in each of those
> years we've have several 13-17 yr old students come into the project
> knowing little about HaikuPortes/Haikuporter.  They not only read through
> the docs, but figure out how to put working recipes together.  So it can be
> done.  If the docs are still lacking they can be improved, it's a wiki.
>
> -scottmc
>
>
>

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