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Do developers of Puppy versions need a place to talk to each other?

Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2022 9:26 am
by bigpup

This is an idea.

Have a place on the forum for developers of all these Puppy versions to go to talk to each other, specifically.
Just a place for them to post ideas, questions, tips, suggestions, whatever, to other developers of Puppy versions.

This would be discussions at a much higher level, than the users section of the forum.

Someplace for developers to bounce stuff of of each other.
Examples:
How did you do this?
I am thinking to do this, what do you think?
Should we start having get in Puppy versions?
I am working on this, but just seem to be stuck, at this point?
What programs should we be putting in Puppy Linux?
What about providing updates?
Woof-CE is giving me this problem. How did you get it to work?
Etc.... etc........

Well maybe, other people could jump in, if they see something, they could offer useful information about.

But definitely not a place to post issues or questions from users or beginners.

Puppy Developers, What do you think?


Re: Do developers of Puppy versions need a place to talk to each other?

Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2022 9:54 am
by backi

Hi @bigpup :
I am not Developer myself.... but this is a really good Idea.

It would be a great Step forwards to more efficient/ focused Communication about Puppy or other Dog`s Development .......
As it is mentioned here now ....i wonder why this Idea was not brought up earlier!

Nevertheless :thumbup:


Re: Do developers of Puppy versions need a place to talk to each other?

Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2022 10:07 am
by ndujoe2

good idea, but how to implement is purposefully. Puppy needs a separate thing like Slack.


Re: Do developers of Puppy versions need a place to talk to each other?

Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2022 10:38 am
by backi

Hi @ndujoe2 :

Puppy needs a separate thing like Slack.

Sorry.....but what does it mean :?


Re: Do developers of Puppy versions need a place to talk to each other?

Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2022 10:48 am
by peebee

There is already a Github discussion area which is so far unused:
https://github.com/puppylinux-woof-CE/w ... ns/landing

All such initiatives need active participants to be successful......


Re: Do developers of Puppy versions need a place to talk to each other?

Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2022 2:13 am
by bigpup

That link is not working for me.
I get 404 error and page not found.


Re: Do developers of Puppy versions need a place to talk to each other?

Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2022 6:06 am
by peebee
bigpup wrote: Tue Aug 02, 2022 2:13 am

That link is not working for me.
I get 404 error and page not found.

Only maintainers can see this page and enable Discussions

So it is a "private" area.........


Re: Do developers of Puppy versions need a place to talk to each other?

Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2022 3:41 pm
by rockedge

Only maintainers can see this page and enable Discussions

Who are the "maintainers"? Seems like a lack of those might be the cause that there are no discussions.

I do run into some interesting things time to time building KLV's and WDL's that translate over to Puppy systems.


Re: Do developers of Puppy versions need a place to talk to each other?

Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2022 11:22 am
by peebee

Re: Do developers of Puppy versions need a place to talk to each other?

Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2022 12:40 am
by ndujoe2

Slack is a communicating, programming interface where developers can cooperate, create and improve code


Re: Do developers of Puppy versions need a place to talk to each other?

Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2022 5:09 am
by dimkr
rockedge wrote: Tue Aug 02, 2022 3:41 pm

Who are the "maintainers"? Seems like a lack of those might be the cause that there are no discussions.

I agree, look at the statistics at https://github.com/puppylinux-woof-CE/w ... ntributors. There are very few active contributors, and most of them change a line here or there and not very often.

For this to work, all woof-CE users need to start using git to manage their private woof-CE changes and submit them for inclusion into woof-CE via pull requests. Otherwise, it's a mostly dead project with many unhealthy forks.