Hello everyone! Lets talk about what our contributors has been doing this past months and more.
Welcome to the eleventh edition of Contributor Roundup!
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What people has been doing
@joebonrichie updated GNOME to 48.5. @Harvey has been busy this month, they updated KDE Plasma to 6.4.5, KDE Gear applications to 25.08.1, KDE Frameworks to 6.18.0 and Mesalib to 25.2.3.
Not one to be outdone, @EbonJaeger updated Niri to 25.08 and GStreamer has been updated to 1.26.5. As a part of this update, our GStreamer packages have been overhauled massively which hopefully bring easier maintainance. ypkg, part of our packaging tools got new release at version 35.0.0.
@ReillyBrogan updated our linux kernels. Linux current is now at 6.16.5 and LTS kernel is now at 6.12.45. Linux current kernel is now using the scx-sched scheduler instead of BORE.
Hacktoberfest is here! It is an annual event that "encourages people to contribute to open source throughout October, while earning rewards. You can get cool badges! You can read more about it on our blogpost.
For the one curious about AerynOS journey, they just released a new blogpost.
What packages were recently added
No new packages were added this month. Take up a maintainership of these approved requests if you want more packages on Solus.
Pacakging process changes
Here are the changes to the packaging workflow in September:
All previous changes are kept on "Packaging Changes" page in the Help Center.
Around the Repositories
Here are a few statistics around our public repositories on Github, compiled by yours truly for your enjoyment. (Repositories with no activity in the month will not be included)
Solus Cleanup Crew
We need more help to complete the Cleanup Crew tasks, as it has been a few months with little progress. Here are the tasks that still need to be done and their progress:
Contribute?
We need help updating localization for eopkg. If you see that your native language is not translated, head over to Transifex and help us do it.
We are looking for help with web development, especially someone with Hugo experience.
Here are a few open issues that are good for either newcomers or experienced:
Try one of these issues, you would surprised how easy it is! Or not, but you already tried and that counts a lot! If you do want to try, these are the basic steps to contribute to Solus:
- Join the Solus Packaging Room and Development Room on Matrix
- Read our documentation
- Submit your first Pull Request. We recommend doing any of the issues labeled as "Good first issue" in the respective repository.
- 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):
- 6 people in Crew tier, +0
- 37 people in Release Testers tier, +0
- 15 people in Beta Testers tier, -1
- 27 people in Backers tier, -1
- 12 non-tiered donations, -2
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