Compiz was released in 2006 and is still maintained. Unity7 was released in 2010 and is still maintained. My question is why Wayland and Lomiri are so far away in terms of functionality, plugins etc. compared to tech made 20 years ago.
Are we building on top or reinventing the wheel?
Just found out the Matrix rooms but it seems the core dev team is not there.
Telegram went so downhill over the past few months that I can't even register anymore.
Is there any other way to communicate with core developer team given that Lomiri has freedom of choice in its manifesto but is tied to a single communication platform?
@lduboeuf Thanks, will give it a try. Hope it works on the host machine as well rather than needing a connected device because I am using it as a desktop.
I read the documentation, it seems it's meant to be used for building packages for Lomiri, not working on Lomiri itself?
@lduboeuf This is another package with its own dependencies different from lomiri itself.
https://gitlab.com/ubports/development/core/lomiri/-/blob/main/debian/control?ref_type=heads
I am building from https://github.com/ubports/ubports-pdk
@lduboeuf Must be something else because this concerns the init system which was changed after 14.10 to systemd by default. We are speaking of 10 years ago... The core team is building the package quite often so they must be using some other version. I checked all other branches but they all require upstart.
Can't bypass it because it's a requirement to build lomiri itself which I am aiming to work on.
Seems like this is the last culprit for me to start contributing to the development of Lomiri.
The reason I am posting here and not in Telegram is because I prefer to have those clear and sorted for anyone joining after me so that we have some kind of up to date wiki of issues and how to resolve them.
Got it working here is the useful issue - https://github.com/ubports/ubports-pdk/issues/40
Now I can do ubports-clone lomiri and start it as a DE.
@Keneda Thanks, now I fully understand. My bad I didn't do my homework. Best of luck to the UBports team. If only they made contributing as an open-source developer a little more easier, a little more straight-forward I will jump wagons as I have a few tasks in mind to work on. As an ex-Scrum Master I am used to this type of thinking where if you make it easy enough for others to contribute and focus on removing impediments then volunteer power will multiply and give you even more time to make the process easier and more welcoming.