Contributor Roundup #7 : End of May 2025

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Hello everyone! In this edition, we will talk about packaging, our website and documentation, cleanup crew, and funding.

Welcome to the seventh edition of Contributor Roundup!

Packaging

We have 19 authors that committed to the packages repository, amounting to 788 commits in the month of
May.

There is no change to the Packaging workflow in May. 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 addedmonitoring.yaml files to 44 packages. Also the number of packages with problematic homepage are down by 43. Here are the tasks that still need to be done and their progress:

366 package(s) are still with insecure or dead homepage, -43
137 package(s) need appstream metainfo added, -1
1717 package(s) are still without monitoring.yml, -44
20 package(s) have problem with its packaging, +2
14 package(s) are tagged for removal, +0

Website and Documentation

There are 7 authors that contributed 14 commits this month to the website and documentation repository. We also have a few open issues on our documentation and website repositories:

4 open issue(s) on website repository, -1
40 open issue(s) on documentation repository, +0
- 6 issue(s) labeled as "Help Wanted", +0
- 4 issue(s) labeled as "Good First Issue", +0

We are still looking for help with web development, especially someone withhugo experience. Please get in touch.

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 the issues labeled as "Good first issue" in the respective repository. (Packaging, Website, Documentation)
Follow the review process until your PR gets merged.
Don't hesitate to ask any questions in our Matrix rooms.
Congratulations on your first contribution!
Keep on contributing.

Funding

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):

7 people in Crew tier, -1
42 people in Release Testers tier, -1
14 people in Beta Testers tier, +0
28 people in Backers tier, -2
12 non-tiered donations, -2

Become a backer with just $1 USD!

That is all from us in this edition of Contributor Roundup. Until next time, cheers!