I understand it's been what we used to call "crunch time" where I worked, and I can sympathize. I've slept at my desk a time or two.

If you talk to @ermo, please tell him I just finished reading "Prepare for Packaging" in the Help Center. He locked our discussion before I could reply to him. I have a good development workstation that's been getting lonely these last few years, and I've used tools like make and git at work. My ambition is to help with the packaging, but right now I need to make sure my ambition doesn't exceed my current ability.

I plan to set up a development environment on that workstation, and further evaluate the idea. Is there currently no packager for VirtualBox?

  • ermo replied to this.

    EbonJaeger If I remember correctly, you discovered that it occurs on other distros as well, indicating that it's an upstream issue

    Yes, and I didn't know at the time whether it was an Oracle issue (for VirtualBox) or a KDE issue (for Wayland). My money is now on VirtualBox, because I've created a number of VMs with Boxes that do NOT lock up anything when used at full screen in a Wayland session.

      WetGeek If you talk to @ermo, please tell him I just finished reading "Prepare for Packaging" in the Help Center.

      Thank You.

      I have a good development workstation that's been getting lonely these last few years, and I've used tools like make and git at work. My ambition is to help with the packaging, but right now I need to make sure my ambition doesn't exceed my current ability.

      FWIW, I personally view this as an extremely commendable attitude.

      I plan to set up a development environment on that workstation, and further evaluate the idea. Is there currently no packager for VirtualBox?

      In general, for complex software packages, it's better for everyone if the maintainer is someone who uses the software on a regular basis and is hence intimately familiar with both its features, its shortcomings and its corner cases.

      Seeing as you appear to be using it extensively, on the face of it, you would appear to be an ideal fit for VBox plus its guest additions.

      If you want to try your hand at packaging, I encourage you to join the -devel matrix room so you can get feedback and tips in real time from other packagers.

          ermo If you want to try your hand at packaging, I encourage you to join the -devel matrix room so you can get feedback and tips in real time from other packagers.

          I'm not sure how to do that. In fact, I have little experience with Mastodon, Fosstodon, etc. Do I get to matrix from there, or do I need to start from somewhere else, like dev.getsol.us?

          I've finished all the steps in setting up my server for packaging, but when I tried to make virtualbox, I got an error message about "Failed to load package: open pspec.xml: no such file or directory", so obviously I must have missed a step, or didn't understand something.

          It sounds like I need to get into the -devel matrix room to get some help with this.

          • ermo replied to this.

              WetGeek It sounds like I need to get into the -devel matrix room to get some help with this.

              https://getsol.us/ <- in the top right of the header, there's a link to "Matrix". Click that and you'll be well on your way. 🙂