Contributor Roundup #3

Hello everyone! We just released new ISO last week, read about it here. We also made progress in the cleanup tasks. In this edition, we will talk about packaging, our website and documentation, cleanup crew and funding.

Welcome to the third edition of Contributor Roundup!

Packaging

In this period, we have 23 authors that committed to the packages repository, amounting to 750 commits.

There was one change to the Packaging workflow in January:

• monitoring.yml changed to monitoring.yaml
  • The file extension used by monitoring.yml was changed to monitoring.yaml
  • This allows us to use some Serpent OS tooling and share the monitoring.yaml files

All previous changes to packaging workflow are kept in "Packaging Changes" page in the help center.

We still have 9 open issues tagged as "Good First Issue". Grab one while it is still there!

Solus Cleanup Crew

We added monitoring.yaml files to 304 packages, thanks to @joebonrichie doing passes at the py folder. He added automatic matching and creation of monitoring.yaml file feature to boulder(Serpent OS build tool). This will help us at completing the monitoring task.

We also migrated 21 packages from the archived Wiki GNOME as homepage. Here are the tasks that still need to be done and their progress:

• 188 package(s) need appstream metainfo added, +1
• 17 package(s) need their homepage migrated, -21
• 2604 package(s) are still without monitoring.yml, -304
• 19 package(s) have problem with its packaging, +3
• 1 package(s) left without homepages, +0
• 23 package(s) are tagged for removal, -2

Website and Documentation

Me and @davidjharder have been messing with Hugo themes for our website; we found two interesting themes that might fit our purpose. One is Hextra and the other is Hugoplate. We have limited experience with either of them, so we would still need help from other people. If you have any experience in web development, especially with hugo, we would love to hear from you.

We have 6 authors and 9 commits in this period. We still have a few open issues on our documentation and website repositories:

• 4 open issue(s) on website repository, +0
• 36 open issue(s) on documentation repository, +0
  • 6 issue(s) labeled as "Help Wanted", +0
  • 4 issue(s) labeled as "Good First Issue", +0

Contribute?

If you are interested in helping with packaging, cleanup crew, website or documentation, these are the steps:

1. Join the Solus Packaging Room and Development Room on Matrix
2. Read and practice our documentation
3. Submit your first Pull Request. We recommend doing any of issue labeled as "Good first issue" in the respective repository. (Packaging, Website, Documentation)
4. Follow along the review process until your PR gets merged.
5. Don't hesitate to ask any questions our Matrix rooms.
6. Congratulations on your first contribution!
7. Keep on contributing.

Funding

At the request of Open Collective, we have added a clarification about contributions. All projects were asked to add a clarification of this nature to their public profiles.

Your contribution is a donation. Perks are provided as a courtesy, on a best-effort basis, and are not guaranteed. No goods or services are expected in exchange for a donation. Any requests for refunds for those purposes will be rejected by Open Collective.

Your financial contributions make all of this possible. 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):

• 3 people in Crew tier, -3
• 14 people in Release Testers tier, -24
• 7 people in Beta Testers tier, -3
• 13 people in Backers tier, -9
• 5 non-tiered donations, -9

Become a backers with just $1 USD!

That is all from us in this edition of Contributor Roundup. For the future roundup, we decided to extend the period to one month. So, the next roundup will be published after the month ends, which is the start of March. See you all then, cheers!