[Digikam-devel] How to support the digikam team

[Joern Ahrens]

On Monday 30 January 2006 12:54, Sebastian Röder wrote:
> > > Maybe the next step would be helping out in making the tarballs (but I
> > > am in no way experienced here).
> >
> > I love this idea...
> >
> > Next week, from stable KDE svn branch, DigikamlmagePlugins need to be
> > released in 0.8.1 version. Are you interressed to do it ?
> >
> > If yes, take a look in PACKAGING file from svn digikam directory, and
> > let's me hear if you need more informations to do it...
> > Gilles
>
> OK, had a look at the PACKAGING file. I think I can process the steps
> described there (thanks to Toma for the detailed "walkthrough").
>
> When it helps the team, e.g. giving Toma more time to coding I will do the
> packaging. Let's talk about the time frame. I have enough time this week to
> do this I'd say. Only problem might be that my Inet connection will get
> some maintainance periods this week and I hope the guys do not make to much
> problems.
>
> I would say I use the week days to make myself familar with SVN and target
> the upload of the tarball for internal testing on friday, So maybe we can
> have a RC1 on monday. Is this OK? Your comments please.
Take the time you need. It doesn't matter if we will release some days later.

> I need SVN (write) access til thursday or something I think - it would be
> nice if someone could guide me a little in this subject.
You neither need write access for packaging nor testing. The tarballs aren't 
stored in svn.

> For sure I will post a question on how to get digikam working from
> inside /home (parallel install to stable gentoo ebuild in /usr). I always
> failed at this point cause digikam couldn't recognize my KDE install. I
> have to adjust my path somehow.
add_root=/opt/kde-svn
export KDEDIRS=$add_root:
export PATH=$add_root/bin:$PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$add_root/lib


... Jörn