Hello everyone! We are trying something new. We are splitting off the Solus Cleanup Crew progress from the weekly Solus Updates and expanding it. In this new format we get more room to talk about other topics than package updates. We will talk about packaging, our website and documentation, cleanup crew and funding. We will try to do this once every three weeks.
Welcome to the first Contributor Roundup!
Packaging
We are always trying to improve our packaging experience for contributors, so changes sometimes happens. Sometimes it is small, sometimes it is big. All of the changes are communicated by our packaging room in Matrix. We are also keeping a record of the changes on the "Packaging Changes" page in the help center. Packaging changes that happened in December are:
- New go-task functionality to check for package updates
- Mandatory rss field in monitoring.yml
For the ones that want to dip their toes into packaging, we have 8 open issue tagged as "Good First Issue" available. Better grab it soon!
Solus Cleanup Crew
Our Solus Cleanup Crew™️ has been hard at work bringing the repository up to current standards. In this period, we managed to add monitoring.yml file to 107 packages, solved 2 packaging problems, and migrated 3 packages from the archived Wiki GNOME as homepage. Here are the tasks that is still need to be done and their progress:
Website and Documentation
We have a few open issues on our documentation and website repositories:
As a sidenote, we would love to have more people working on the website. If you have any experience in web development, especially with hugo, we would love to hear from you.
Contribute?
If you are interested in helping with packaging, cleanup crew, website or documentation, these are the steps:
- Join the Solus Packaging Room and Development Room on Matrix
- Read and practice our documentation
- Submit your first Pull Request. We recommend doing any of issue labeled as "Good first issue" in the respective repository. (Packaging, Website, Documentation)
- Follow along the review process until your PR gets merged.
- Don't hesitate to ask any questions our Matrix rooms.
- Congratulations on your first contribution!
- Keep on contributing.
Funding
We are grateful for the financial support the community gives us, none of this is possible without it. If you have the spare funds, we offer perks on our Open Collective page. Here are the number of people that support us regularly (at the time of writing):
- 7 people in Crew tier
- 30 people in Release Testers tier
- 9 people in Beta Testers tier
- 17 people in Backers tier
- 12 non-tiered donations
Become a backers with just $1 USD!
That is all from us in this first edition of Contributor Roundup. See you all in the next one, cheers!
