RFS: tilda package
Hello Everyone,
this is my first message to this list. I have recently picked up the
development of tilda. The current package in debian and ubuntu is from
2009 and has version 0.9.6. I got in touch with the previous developers
(Ira Snyder, Tristan Sloughter) and they are both not developing it any
more. Also as far as I know the current maintainers of the package are
also not available anymore. The old version 0.9.6 has known bugs and
does not support GTK+3.
So I started developing on tilda a few month ago. I migrated tilda to
GTK+3, fixed a few bugs and added some features. Today I just released
version 1.1.0 and I think it would be nice to have a new updated version
of tilda in debian. The current source can be found at [1], the
changelog can be found at [2]
Unfortunately I do not have any packaging experience and currently
hardly the time to learn it. I tried it a few times before and it does
not seem to be an easy process. I am therefore looking for a sponsore to
package and upload tilda to debian.
Given the fact that there is already a tilda package in debian and the
program it self is very small and as only a few dependencies, I believe
it should not be too much effort for a skilled packager. I have
documented the changes quite well (I think) and the commited are quite
self contained and easy to follow, it should not be too difficult to
verify that there are no unwanted lines of code in the source.
If anymore feels happy to sponsor for this package, feel free to contact
me if you have any questions.
Last but not least, I should mention, that the old location of tilda on
sourceforge is pretty much dead. The code was moved to github.com long
ago [3], but besides a few patches no development has occured. I do have
access to this repository as well, though, in case it should be
necessary to merge the code back to [3].
Kind Regards
Lanoxx
[1] https://github.com/lanoxx/tilda/
[2] https://github.com/lanoxx/tilda/blob/master/ChangeLog
[3] https://github.com/tsloughter/tilda
P.S. There is also a nice applet for gnome-panel lying around in my
github repository named 'window-picker-applet' that works well with
GTK+3 and needs packaging as well. :-)
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