In preparation for the first tarball release of The Board, I thought it would be a good time to start setting up some minimal tools for collaboration. In practice, this means generally using GNOME’s infrastructure.
So, I moved the code repository from Gitorious—of which I think it would be great to have an instance in GNOME servers by the way—to GNOME git. I didn’t do this before because I only wanted to start using GNOME git once I felt more confident about the idea.
I’ve created a basic wiki page with some useful links and, more importantly, a page with general instructions on how to build and run The Board for hacking purposes. I’ve just pushed initial code to make The Board translatable (see image). So I’ll soon be doing a call for translations. There’s now a GNOME bugzilla product for The Board. Feel free to start filing bugs!
I’ve started using Flattr—the social micro-payment system—a couple months ago as an experiment. I added a The Board entry there. You’re welcome to flattr the project or any of the related entries.
I think it’s too early to create a mailing list. I’ll do it once the first releases are out and a certain number of people demonstrate interest in the project. I expect to be releasing the first 0.1.0 tarball soon!
I’ve been following your project from your first post and I’m willing to test it. I was thinking this could be also a great idea to be a competitor to Mac OS dashboard.
Is there some way to run it through jhbuild or some other ‘set me up all needed libraries not present on my distro automagically’?
Congrats!
@diega, I tried to add as much details as possible to the build instructions. In theory, just following the steps in that page should get The Board up and running on your computer. I suggest you to try to follow this guide. If something doesn’t work, just let me know.
[...] sicuramente tra le meteore dei progetti GNU/Linux. Chi ci sta dietro , coscienzioso di tutto ciò, si appronta per costruire attorno a The Board il terreno che potrebbe accelerarne lo sviluppo e la [...]
Your project is awesome.
If you want I can offer an Italian translation of the application.
Compliments!
Regards,
Andrea
@Andrea, As I said, I’ll soon make a call for translations to the GNOME Translation team. If you’re already involved with the Italian translation of GNOME, you’ll see my message. Thanks!