libera/#devuan-dev/ Saturday, 2023-02-04

Kreyrenhey where can i apply to be a devuan developer?01:03
Kreyrenimma currently maintaining an armbian release for OLIMEX Teres-1 and it seems that i can implement devuan on it01:03
bgstack15Devuan Developer is not a complicated process like Debian Developer. Anyone who contributes to Devuan is a Devuan developer.01:10
bgstack15If you have anything to contribute to Devuan, just jump right in! Are you thinking of helping provide iso files geared towards your architecture?01:11
Kreyrennot isos it generates img files including the filesystems expected to be flashed on an SDCard but ye that's the idea01:18
bgstack15Is mx.devuan.org still the correct smtp thing to use for reportbug? I cannot tell if my ISP is merely blocking me or if it otherwise is not accessible/up.01:18
bgstack15Kreyren: Thank you for your interest in contributing! I think asking on the forum, dev1galaxy.org, would be best because it lasts longer than IRC discussions.01:19
Kreyrenhm O.o can you like give me some short summary? Ideally i would like the system listed on devuan as officially supported as it's free and open source software and hardware design (non-free firmware WiFi with mod for libre one due to supply)01:21
Kreyrenand like get devuan.org mail so that i get to flex on people~01:21
bgstack15I know the folks who deal with iso builds take seriously the idea of [pretty much] everything getting tested. Do you anticipate being able to test your builds of your .img files, and stick around for a long time to answer questions users might have that are related to your architecture+Devuan?01:22
Kreyrencurrently developing armbian so that i can use it to develop guix and i am working on https://olimex.miraheze.org/wiki/Products/Teres-1 and https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Olimex/Teres-I to provide information to make downstream management easier and i will be available mainly on chat to help with things, but will check forums from time to time01:24
bgstack15I expect you can certainly get started by signing up at git.devuan.org and placing your build scripts in scm there. People will want to see your processes and provide input.01:24
Kreyrenso idea is that i automate the build through armbian's build framework and if something breaks then try to fix it or help someone who wants to fix it01:25
Kreyrenoptionally up to discussion i want the system to have as many distro supported as possible ^-^01:25
Kreyrenpossibly same for OLIMEX OlinuXino-A64 bcs i am using that board for lot of projects atm01:26
Kreyren(same SoC)01:26
bgstack15That sounds neat. I know very little about that sort of thing. I know that in the past Devuan offered .qcow2 files for libvirt but no longer does.01:26
Kreyren(teres is a notebook and olinuxino-a64 is development board that was used to make the PCB for the notebook)01:26
Kreyrenqcow2 can probably be implemented in armbian's management which shouldn't be difficult for me to do01:27
bgstack15You definitely need to organize these thoughts into a permanent post over at dev1galaxy.org! This is too good to be lost merely in this irc log.01:27
bgstack15I don't know if the qcow2 generation process still exists; I was merely saying alternate images are useful!01:27
bgstack15I know some of the iso build folks tend to care the most about the live desktop isos. I'm just glad they still build netinstalls...01:28
Kreyrenhmm O.o didn't check in terms of live isos might be implementable though01:29
bgstack15Alas, I wasn't trying to say you need to provide live isos. I was just sharing another type of image that is built.01:30
bgstack15You can share any type of image that makes sense for your architecture. I would guess that your value-add here is a process that generates a .img file that users would just dd onto an SD card, and then pop it into your SoC system, and boot straight to Devuan.01:31
Kreyrenhmm oke O.o i need to automate the deployment of debian first though so i can do devuan next and will post things on that forum01:32
bgstack15Devuan should be extremely similar to Debian!01:32
Kreyrenye seems to be just a matter of implementing few case statements to change the repos ^-^01:33
bgstack15Hopefully that easy.01:34
* Kreyren already built devuan on that just needs more polishing and time :P01:37
fsmithredhttp://arm-files.devuan.org/   <-- community contributed images01:39
fsmithredas mentioned, talk to the folks in the arm section of the forum01:39
Kreyrenwill do~01:39
fsmithredmaybe have a look at the migration instructions (debian to devuan migrations)01:40
fsmithredhttps://www.devuan.org/os/install01:41
fsmithredonly relevant if you're actually migrating an existing installation, I guess.01:43
Kreyrenseems to be building it from scratch and then puting things on top of that like kernel and optimizations01:47

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