Self introduction: Mairo P. Rufus

[P. Mairo]

Hello my name is Mairo Paul Rufus, I'm interested in joining this SIG.

I started using Fedora as my daily driver a year ago or so, and recently transitioned to
use Sway, but iirc it's not yet in the main repository and I use a COPR, I managed to
somehow make it work since the early days of Fedora 31 and I would like to give a hand to
make the experience with sway smoother on Fedora, I don't have much experience in
packaging, or activities carried out in a SIG in general, can you please point me out to
some things I can do?

Cheers
Rufus

[Till Hofmann]

Hi Rufus,

Welcome to the SIG!

On 5/13/20 8:54 PM, P. Mairo wrote:
>  Hello my name is Mairo Paul Rufus, I'm interested in joining this
> SIG.
>  
>  I started using Fedora as my daily driver a year ago or so, and recently
>  transitioned to use Sway, but iirc it's not yet in the main repository
>  and I use a COPR, I managed to somehow make it work since the early days
>  of Fedora 31 
I'm not sure what exactly you're referring to? sway has been in the
official repositories since Fedora 26. All the packages listed on the
SIG wiki page [1] are in the official repositories.

That being said, I'm sure that there are things that could be improved,
so your help is more than welcome!

If you want to join the SIG, please subscribe to our public [2] and
private [3] lists.

Kind regards,
Till

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Sway
[2]
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/sway.lists.fedoraproject.org/
[3]
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/sway-sig.lists.fedoraproject....

[Dan Čermák]

Welcome Rufus!

We also have a sorta-kinda unofficial board on teams.fedoraproject.org
https://teams.fedoraproject.org/project/sway-test/timeline
In case you want to join there too, just tell me and I'll add you.


Cheers,

Dan

Till Hofmann <thofmann(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; writes:

>  Hi Rufus,
>
>  Welcome to the SIG!
>
>  On 5/13/20 8:54 PM, P. Mairo wrote:
> > Hello my name is Mairo Paul Rufus, I'm interested in joining this SIG.
> > 
> > I started using Fedora as my daily driver a year ago or so, and recently
> > transitioned to use Sway, but iirc it's not yet in the main repository
> > and I use a COPR, I managed to somehow make it work since the early days
> > of Fedora 31
>
>  I'm not sure what exactly you're referring to? sway has been in the
>  official repositories since Fedora 26. All the packages listed on the
>  SIG wiki page [1] are in the official repositories.
>
>  That being said, I'm sure that there are things that could be improved,
>  so your help is more than welcome!
>
>  If you want to join the SIG, please subscribe to our public [2] and
>  private [3] lists.
>
>  Kind regards,
>  Till
>
>  [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Sway
>  [2]
>  https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/sway.lists.fedoraproject.org/
>  [3]
>  https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/sway-sig.lists.fedoraproject....
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[Mairo P. Rufus]

Thanks, it will really be appreciated.

Cheers,

Rufus

>  Welcome Rufus!
>
>  We also have a sorta-kinda unofficial board on teams.fedoraproject.org
>  https://teams.fedoraproject.org/project/sway-test/timeline
>  In case you want to join there too, just tell me and I'll add you.
>
>
>  Cheers,
>
>  Dan
>
>  Till Hofmann <thofmann(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; writes:
>
>  > Hi Rufus,
>  >
>  > Welcome to the SIG!
>  >
>  > On 5/13/20 8:54 PM, P. Mairo wrote:
>  >> Hello my name is Mairo Paul Rufus, I'm interested in joining this SIG.
>  >> 
>  >> I started using Fedora as my daily driver a year ago or so, and recently
>  >> transitioned to use Sway, but iirc it's not yet in the main repository
>  >> and I use a COPR, I managed to somehow make it work since the early days
>  >> of Fedora 31
>  >
>  > I'm not sure what exactly you're referring to? sway has been in the
>  > official repositories since Fedora 26. All the packages listed on the
>  > SIG wiki page [1] are in the official repositories.
>  >
>  > That being said, I'm sure that there are things that could be improved,
>  > so your help is more than welcome!
>  >
>  > If you want to join the SIG, please subscribe to our public [2] and
>  > private [3] lists.
>  >
>  > Kind regards,
>  > Till
>  >
>  > [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Sway
>  > [2]
>  > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/sway.lists.fedoraproject.org/
>  > [3]
>  > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/sway-sig.lists.fedoraproject....
>  > _______________________________________________
>  > Sway mailing list -- sway(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
>  > To unsubscribe send an email to sway-leave(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
>  > Fedora Code of Conduct:
> https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/
>  > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
>  > List Archives:
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]

[Dan Čermák]

An invite should be in your inbox.


Cheers,

Dan

"Mairo P. Rufus" <akoudanilo(a)gmail.com&gt; writes:

>  Thanks, it will really be appreciated.
>
>  Cheers,
>
>  Rufus
>
> > Welcome Rufus!
> >
> > We also have a sorta-kinda unofficial board on teams.fedoraproject.org
> > https://teams.fedoraproject.org/project/sway-test/timeline
> > In case you want to join there too, just tell me and I'll add you.
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Dan
> >
> > Till Hofmann <thofmann(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; writes:
> >
> > > Hi Rufus,
> > >
> > > Welcome to the SIG!
> > >
> > > On 5/13/20 8:54 PM, P. Mairo wrote:
> > >> Hello my name is Mairo Paul Rufus, I'm interested in joining this SIG.
> > >> 
> > >> I started using Fedora as my daily driver a year ago or so, and recently
> > >> transitioned to use Sway, but iirc it's not yet in the main repository
> > >> and I use a COPR, I managed to somehow make it work since the early days
> > >> of Fedora 31
> > >
> > > I'm not sure what exactly you're referring to? sway has been in the
> > > official repositories since Fedora 26. All the packages listed on the
> > > SIG wiki page [1] are in the official repositories.
> > >
> > > That being said, I'm sure that there are things that could be improved,
> > > so your help is more than welcome!
> > >
> > > If you want to join the SIG, please subscribe to our public [2] and
> > > private [3] lists.
> > >
> > > Kind regards,
> > > Till
> > >
> > > [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Sway
> > > [2]
> > > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/sway.lists.fedoraproject.org/
> > > [3]
> > > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/sway-sig.lists.fedoraproject....
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Sway mailing list -- sway(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
> > > To unsubscribe send an email to sway-leave(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
> > > Fedora Code of Conduct:
> https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/
> > > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
> > > List Archives:
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]

[Mairo P. Rufus]

On Thu May 14, 2020 at 12:00 PM WAT, Till Hofmann wrote:
>  Hi Rufus,
>
>  Welcome to the SIG!
>
>  On 5/13/20 8:54 PM, P. Mairo wrote:
>  > Hello my name is Mairo Paul Rufus, I'm interested in joining this SIG.
>  > 
>  > I started using Fedora as my daily driver a year ago or so, and recently
>  > transitioned to use Sway, but iirc it's not yet in the main repository
>  > and I use a COPR, I managed to somehow make it work since the early days
>  > of Fedora 31
>
>  I'm not sure what exactly you're referring to? sway has been in the
>  official repositories since Fedora 26. All the packages listed on the
>  SIG wiki page [1] are in the official repositories. 
My bad , thanks for pointing this out, you're right but I remember wanting 
to have a more recent version and the one in the main repository was stuck
to something like 1.0, anyway, the other problem that made me use a COPR 
was(is?) the lack of packages related to sway.

>  That being said, I'm sure that there are things that could be
> improved,
>  so your help is more than welcome!
>
>  If you want to join the SIG, please subscribe to our public [2] and
>  private [3] lists.
>
>  Kind regards,
>  Till
>
>  [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Sway
>  [2]
>  https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/sway.lists.fedoraproject.org/
>  [3]
>  https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/sway-sig.lists.fedoraproject.... 
Joined

[Till Hofmann]

On 5/14/20 6:37 PM, Mairo P. Rufus wrote:
>  the other problem that made me use a COPR 
>  was(is?) the lack of packages related to sway. 
Which package is missing?

[Mairo P. Rufus]

Off the top of my head: 

- The fork of redshift working of Wayland  
- Wf-recorder (screen recorder)
- Alacritty the GPU terminal
- Mako (not sure about this one, I think it was added)

>  Which package is missing?

[Benjamin Lowry]

On Thu, 2020-05-14 at 17:37 +0100, Mairo P. Rufus wrote:
>  My bad , thanks for pointing this out, you're right but I
> remember wanting 
>  to have a more recent version and the one in the main repository was stuck
>  to something like 1.0, anyway, the other problem that made me use a COPR 
>  was(is?) the lack of packages related to sway. 
This is probably something we should
try to raise awareness of, but you
can get rolling versions of sway and related packages using a module:

$ sudo dnf module enable sway:rolling

-ben

[Onyeibo Oku]

>  > was(is?) the lack of packages related to sway.
>  This is probably something we should try to raise awareness of, but you
>  can get rolling versions of sway and related packages using a module:
>
>  $ sudo dnf module enable sway:rolling
>
>  -ben 
Rolling versions? What's that?

Personally, It would be nice to see 'aerc'[1], 'Termite'[2], and
'Newbreeze'[3] packages in Fedora.  Termite appears to be designed for Window
Managers like Sway.

Regards
Onyeibo

1. https://aerc-mail.org/
2. https://github.com/thestinger/termite
3. https://github.com/marcusbritanicus/NewBreeze

[Till Hofmann]

On 5/14/20 10:32 PM, Onyeibo Oku wrote:

>  
>  Personally, It would be nice to see 'aerc'[1], 'Termite'[2], and
> 'Newbreeze'[3] packages in Fedora.  Termite appears to be designed for Window
> Managers like Sway.
>   
Thanks, I added a wishlist:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Sway#Wishlist

[Mairo P. Rufus]

Definitely yes, thanks for the tip. Out of curiosity, can I check which
packages are available as modules?

>  This is probably something we should try to raise awareness of, but
> you
>  can get rolling versions of sway and related packages using a module:
>
>  $ sudo dnf module enable sway:rolling
>
>  -ben

[Benjamin Lowry]

On Thu, 2020-05-14 at 21:52 +0100, Mairo P. Rufus wrote:
>  Definitely yes, thanks for the tip. Out of curiosity, can I check
>  which packages are available as modules? 
'sudo dnf module info sway' should
show all the packages included in
the module.