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Alpine's community has always seemed kind of "slap this together" combined with "figure it out yourself". I remember trying to contribute and it being a pain. A
by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
Alpine's community has always seemed kind of "slap this together" combined with "figure it out yourself". I remember trying to contribute and it being a pain. Advice to the maintainers: spend a month or two finding ways to make it easier for us to contribute, and we will.
- fluix 3y agoCould you describe what you found difficult? I'm pretty new to packaging on Alpine, but found it to be easy to get into, only requiring a bit more effort than the AUR.
- copperbrick25 3y agoWhat issues exactly did you have with contributing? I found it very easy to contribute to alpine, I wrote an APKBUILD, created a pull request, someone reviewed my PR and pointed out an issue, I fixed it and my PR was merged. I can't think of a way that could be made any easier.
- 1letterunixname 3y agoSounds like all the release engineering rigor of a 1 man, DIY hobby out for the path of least resistance. One person trying to do too much is no bueno. It needs to be a team effort and consumers need to step-up to be occasional producers as well.
- salawat 3y agoCounterpoint: No system built by committee will ever be trivially reckonable/navigable by a single person. Therefore the only people who will derive benefit from it will mostly be committees/orgs. When one builds for oneself, or a single person, one builds under a set of constraints that truly allow for peak accessibility. You've only got 1 person to do the whole shebang. And if one person can do it, you're on a much better footing from which to then allow anyone to do it. As someone in the midst of building out a lab, it's been humbling, and in a way invigorating to return to grappling with building cohesive, single operator systems.