Sponsoring ongoing Debian packaging ?

[Mike Gabriel]

Hi Fabian,

On  Di 15 Jan 2019 20:30:40 CET, F. Rodriguez wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'd like to know if anyone here would be interested in funding Debian
> package updates for Guacamole. This would trickle down and benefit its
> derivatives (most notably Ubuntu) and help wider adoption and support.
> It would also help users benefit faster from improvements in recent
> versions. Right now a script is available for manual installation
> <https://github.com/MysticRyuujin/guac-install>, I see it already
> supports v. 1.0.0.
>
> I have a small budget for this and I am in discussion with one Debian
> developer to start this effort.
>
> I am CCing emails I've found in current maintainers and those that
> worked recently on building against FreeRDP 2 (see Debian #900477
> <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=900447>).
>
> What do you think ? Some sort of crowdfunding could be setup for this, I
> like how Freexian + Debian LTS
> <https://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts-details.html> do this. I
> am not sure if the Apache Foundation could manage this, perhaps
> Glyptodon ? We can also organize this more informally. i am ready to
> start funding a few hours monthly by myself but thought I'd share my
> intentions and progress here first.
>
> What do you think ? As a current Guacamole user, can you contribute
> financially to this effort ? How much ? As a developer and/or
> maintainer, are you interested ?
>
> A few references:
>
>   * https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=887465 -  Please
>     update to new upstream version
>   * https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=900447 -  Build
>     against freerdp2
>   * https://wiki.debian.org/Guacamole - Manual installation notes and
>     script for Debian Stretch
>
> - Fabian R.
> http://debian.magicfab.ca

I am interested in working on packaging based on funding. However, the  
FreeRDPv2 + Guacomole upstream part of the work (porting Guacomole to  
FreeRDP v2, not sure of its current status upstream) is a bit  
off-topic for me. I can help getting stuff into Debian, once patches  
exist.

I can recommend the Thincast.AT (in Austria) people (Bernhard  
Miklautz, Martin Fleisz, etc.) when it comes to working on FreeRDP and  
integrations of FreeRDP.

For Guacomole, I'd recommend dropping FreeRDP v1.1 support totally and  
adapting the API calls to FreeRDP v2.0 (which is in rc4 these days).

light+love
Mike




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