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Is it possible to use this to contribute to Gnome Shell or GTK+? Or is "contribution" limited to applications?

• audidude 10y ago
  I use it regularly to hack on GLib, Gtk+, Builder, Shell, Mutter, Sysprof, etc. The primary issue is that for things that are libraries or system services, we don't have a way to install that and run some sort of test suite. We have a GSoC/Outreachy project for the unit testing integration, so that is not far off. My eventual goal is to tie in GNOME continuous so that we can have all the base OS bits and just overlay the systems-level project (be it gtk, shell, boot services, etc). And then one keyboard shortcut to build/deploy/launch/debug. Should work for remote devices too.
• csoriano 10y ago
  The Flatpak version is not ready for that, no. That's why we link to JHBuild too, for the time being. Of course Christian is working on trying to make that work. In any case, most probably newcomers (the target audience of the initiative for now) won't probably hack on those anyway. In the future we would like to have a generic guide for contribution, apart of just newcomers apps, but first we had to figure out the base. Now that it's done, we can move up and up in difficulty.