Re: Interested in contributing

[John Quigley <jquigley@jquigley.com>]

John Quigley wrote:
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> The only other, minor detail I would add is to practice building from
>> the git repository.  These projects are definitely in the "heavy
>> development" phase, and problems with release tarballs may have
>> already been fixed in the git repo by the time someone gets around to
>> reporting the bug.
> 
> I'm doing all of my work, include build/test from your git repos; I'm 
> also building on Debian (testing), which I gather differs from your 
> folks' development environments (RH-based?).
> 
> I have some (simple) libtool patches to your build system that allow for 
> Debian-based builds, given the more recent libtool packages.  I assume 
> you'd want any and all such patches?

For that matter, what is your development environment?  I should 
probably try to duplicate that on my end (if only in a vm) for testing 
purposes.

I'm also going to try documenting some of these environment- and 
build-related matters on the wiki.

- John Quigley