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aidanholm / luakit

A fork of a fast, small, webkit based browser framework extensible by Lua that uses GTK 3 and WebKit 2.
https://aidanholm.github.io/luakit/
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Debianization #383

Open groolot opened 7 years ago

groolot commented 7 years ago

Hi Aidan,

I need a stable Debian package of luakit for my system and a liveUSB project I maintain for my students.

I would like to propose you to be the maintainer of this luakit version inside Debian. I'm totally new to this process but it seems that people is using luakit, but less than before (https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=luakit).

This version based on WebKit2 is better than ever :)

Do you want me to help the project to achieve the Debianization?

aidanholm commented 7 years ago

Hey, That sounds great; I've never maintained a Debian package and am unsure what that entails. I'd be willing to merge any commits that help with that though! Thanks :)

groolot commented 7 years ago

To do that, we have to work together on the same repository and I should have write access to the debianization branche only. We also will have to decide together the version name and release dates.

The other way is to package it from my fork where I will have a total control on version name and release. This is not my preference.

I think for example that the package could be named luakit2 for two reasons:

Due to myjuvenile skills in this process, I'm trying to do it slowly and the most cleanly as I can.

JR1994 commented 7 years ago

Please, anyway I can help let me know.

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To do that, we have to work together on the same repository and I should have write access to the debianization branche only. We also will have to decide together the version name and release dates.

The other way is to package it from my fork where I will have a total control on version name and release. This is not my preference.

I think for example that the package could be named luakit2 for two reasons:

  • the WebKit2GTK version is used and split compatibility with older version (say 2012.09.x)
  • several great enhancements have been added by @aidanholm https://github.com/aidanholm

Due to myjuvenile skills in this process, I'm trying to do it slowly and the most cleanly as I can.

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aidanholm commented 7 years ago

@groolot I don't believe GitHub supports restricting write access to a single branch. However, the original creator of luakit is offering to transfer ownership of luakit/luakit, and so this updated fork would be moved there and become the new mainline (#388). I'm not sure if this implies transfer of ownership of the luakit organization; if it does, then it should be straightforward to maintain a luakit/luakit-deb repo that would pull (automatically?) from luakit/luakit. That solves that problem.

I have in fact considered renaming my fork to luakit2, precisely because of the webkit version bump :) an unfork could mean just using the original luakit package name, however.

@JR1994 The best way to help is to open issues with any problems you find or features you'd find useful :) even "how do I do X" questions are great, because they indicate where the documentation is lacking.

JR1994 commented 7 years ago

Will do!

On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 10:51 AM, Aidan Holm notifications@github.com wrote:

@groolot https://github.com/groolot I don't believe GitHub supports restricting write access to a single branch. However, the original creator of luakit is offering to transfer ownership of luakit/luakit, and so this updated fork would be moved there and become the new mainline (#388 https://github.com/aidanholm/luakit/issues/388). I'm not sure if this implies transfer of ownership of the luakit organization; if it does, then it should be straightforward to maintain a luakit/luakit-deb repo that would pull (automatically?) from luakit/luakit. That solves that problem.

I have in fact considered renaming my fork to luakit2, precisely because of the webkit version bump :) an unfork could mean just using the original luakit package name, however.

@JR1994 https://github.com/jr1994 The best way to help is to open issues with any problems you find or features you'd find useful :) even "how do I do X" questions are great, because they indicate where the documentation is lacking.

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