Il 19/03/2022 19:45, Varanda ha scritto:
Thanks a lot Fabio,Your English is very good. English is also my seconds language BTW… first is Portuguese.I believe that I may be able to contribute with SW development (than packaging). Therefore, I my check if my patches are accepted by Mint guys. Next, I may help integration with Debian if needed.I had proposed to "my company" to adopt Debian Bulleye to bundle “our" audio/video solutions with it. (It is not “my company” nor “our product”… actually the company I am working for and the company’s products)All these stable/non-stable is a bit confusing but I guess the best way to learn is when I need to do something; then I will seek for advises from you and the team.One thing that is bugging me is the Popup when the session starts alerting about the Video Driver. I want to add a checkbox to avoid showing it again if checked. Code is in main.js function “notifyCinnamon2d”:https://salsa.debian.org/cinnamon-team/cinnamon/-/blob/master/js/ui/main.jsI need to understand how the settings manager works in order to have a persistent state for my checkbox.Anyways…. Thanks a lot for your help.
About contributing on software you need to use the upstream git master (https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon) and not debian one that have only latest stable.
For reporting issue or request features: https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon/issues
For submit your patch fork the repository and create a pull request: https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon/pulls
About debian packaging take the latest stable version and some other changes/fixes if needed. Stable update can take only fixes and is not easy/fast do it, for example I did one about a crash fix recently and is now in proposed stable updates. If there are important upstream fixes to add to next debian build before wait new upstream version and/or to do a stable proposed update try to wrote and we will saw if possible.
About the popup you mean is when video hardware acceleration is missed and fallback to the software one, this happen mainly on virtual machine, seems strange you have it in production, or maybe I got it wrong about what you mean.
However, I do not have time now to see in detail if there is a bug regarding that specific notification or there is a need for an improvement in the notification system in general.
About that message with the rebase muffin it doesn't appear to me anymore even with the virtual machine if I remember correctly, about notification system there is something change in muffin rebase (https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon/pull/10372) but not significant for what I remember.
On Mar 19, 2022, at 2:15 PM, Fabio Fantoni <fantonifabio@tiscali.it> wrote:Il 19/03/2022 14:06, Varanda ha scritto:Hi, the developement of newer cinnamon and related components is done upstream, mainly by mint developers (there are also other contributors, anyone can contribute https://linuxmint-developer-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/cinnamon.html), upstream have also a debian packaging but don't consider debian policies important sothere are some things not done in an optimal way or in contradiction with debian policies ( https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ ). upstream packaging need also support of older/latest debian stable version and ubuntu LTS version (for Mint/LMDE distros).Hello All, I would like to learn more about contributing to Cinnamon for Debian.It seem that the workflow is to get code updates from Mint (upstream) and integrate it to Debian.It may get a bit confusing as LMDE also uses Debian; seems like a circular workflow at first view.I am assuming that new features may be desired to first have Mint accepting/integrating them.But my assumptions may not be correct. Thus my question: Is there any doc explaining the dev cycle and workflow across Debian branches?Thanks in advance, VarandaDebian packaging is done on stable cinnamon version and on debian unstable so can contain newer thing of packaging and other software but "older" about cinnamon when arrive to stable, and also need more respect of debian policy. The active debian maintainer of debian cinnamon team are me and joshua and recently Christoph joined for help us to upload packages.Occasionally for years I have been merging some changes/improvements of debian upstream packages but having to support stable (or even previous stable) versions of both debian and ubuntu require a long time to check and test the packages well and I don't have a lot of time to done all and keep updated.Recently upstream there is abig work in progress for muffin rebase (after over 10 years). The muffin rebase is essential for the support newer technologies and for cinnamon future, there is still a lot of work to be done (some things listed here: https://tree.taiga.io/project/linuxmint-linux-mint-21-1/us/68?kanban-status=2629638&kanban-swimlane=3950 <https://tree.taiga.io/project/linuxmint-linux-mint-21-1/us/68?kanban-status=2629638&kanban-swimlane=3950>) but unfortunately I don't have enough time to contribute significantly and at the moment I'm just trying to update the ppa for users that want do some fast/easy tests (https://launchpad.net/~fantonifabio/+archive/ubuntu/muffin-rebase/), do some quick tests and have done/do some fixes/improvements to the upstream packaging.In this and other upstream works I think more developers/testers are needed to help faster and better work.@Varanda: probably the first thing to know, you would like to contribute in packaging or the software?thanks for any reply and sorry for my bad english
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