Re: a way to get more GNOME hackers

Alberto, here are some hints if you want to improve this part of GNOME (ie, reduce the technical level needed by newcommers to just become jhbuild users).

Create a standard .jhbuildrc for newbies

Look at http://live.gnome.org/JhbuildDependencies. But a jhbuildrc is a bit distro dependant… For example, I maintain the Mandriva subsection: http://live.gnome.org/JhbuildDependencies/MandrivaLinux

Create a metapackage gnome-jhbuild-essentials

This may not work, as dependencies vary from each GNOME version to build. You’ll need a gnome-2.16-jhbuild-essentials and a gnome-2.18-jhbuild-essentials.

Create a page on the wiki for newcomers, explaining howto setup the enviroment, play with module sets, and create a patch.

I was working on a new jhbuild guide this some time ago, but didn’t finish it, so you can modify it if you want. For patches, a patch submission guide exists, but needs some update for the cvs->svn migration: Relevant content of Elijah’s guidelines need also to be imported, as this kind of info should now be centralized in the wiki (Elijah was ok with this, I talked to him about that at last GUADEC).

Check also: http://live.gnome.org/CategoryJhbuild http://live.gnome.org/CategoryJhbuildIssues

Enjoy ;-)