Meeting notes for 2022-09-03

Michal S.

Git Workflow

2 Branches, Main & Development -> Main branch, Tag releases

Development will happen on main from now on, and releases will be managed as Git tags

Split PKGBUILDs from Project repositories

This lets us pull specific tags in PKGBUILDs to easier manage versioning of our packages.

This also lets us checkout specific commits of the PKGBUILD repository with Malachite, in the case of PKGBUILD breakage. This also lets us revert to specific versions of packages in extreme cases.

Blog

Currently, we'll keep the Blog as a Forum tag

Going forward, we'll plan to integrate it into the site using contributions from @Kris and @Abbie on the NextJS PR (link it here)

Mirror blog posts to OpenCollective page

Keeps our Fiscal Host and donors/financial contributors informed of changes and general progress.

ISO

Jade will now auto-start!
Lexii's PR has been merged to disable automatic screen locking

Onyx

Most extensions are packaged currently

Space Bar is yet to be packaged/pushed, and is the last package that needs to be sorted out for Onyx

GSettings schemas are applying correctly
Archive old onyx repository!!!

Amethyst

Thanks Julius!
v4.0.0 is planned to release before 22.11

Includes a LOT of async RPC changes and parallelisation (HUGE amount of work and HUGE thanks to @Julius)

Highly experimental still, but testing is appreciated! (https://github.com/trivernis/amethyst, branch feature/async)

Jade CLI

Needs work

Needs proper error reporting system, which would return what went wrong and send that to Jade GUI. This is going to be addressed in a rework that I'll be working on soon.

Add noto-fonts-symbols to the base set of installed packages

Jade GUI

zramd field needs to be implemented
Manual partitioning is being worked on!
Should catch error from Jade CLI and present to user
Auto-scrolling on terminal output
Register terminal output as a PTY so pacman progress bars display
Some Keyboard layouts and Timezones don't seem to show up in Jade GUI

Moonstone

Will have things such as installation of NVidia drivers, alternative package manager solutons (Flatpak, Nix, etc.)
Commonly installed apps (Messaging, Office, Browsers, etc.)
Potentially? Allow users to switch DEs in Moonstone
Distrobox, Nix, Podman, Docker, etc. in a "Developer Tools" category
Installs Flatpaks by default, but you can choose to install from repos alternatively for supported packages

ALARM Spin

Packaging needs to be sorted
Build server required to bootstrap Aarch64

Once this is done, we can start making ALARM-based SD-card .imgs! I'm personally looking forward to hosting my RPi on Crystal 🙂

Sort out PKGBUILDs for Aarch64 support

Plymouth

Plymouth needs to be set-up and worked on

Enabled by default and optionally disabled in Moonstone

Meetings

6PM UTC on Saturdays

Crystal-Extra

Phase it out!! Begone!!