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• Storing Package Metadata

  GiftWrap should save all the data relevant to a package so that the package can be built multiple times without making the user waste time re-entering data. The file should probably be in XML

  https://giftwrap.fandom.com/wiki/Storing_Package_Metadata

• New design

  What does this do: packages a giftwrap plugin as a.deb. What this does: installs a.desktop& moves a bunch of files around.

  https://giftwrap.fandom.com/wiki/New_design

• Making packages

  There are two ways to make a package - using debhelper or cdbs. A quick overview is available at the ubuntu packaging guide. Structure of a debian package is the program sources+ a debian/ folder with

  https://giftwrap.fandom.com/wiki/Making_packages

• GiftWrap Wiki

  Welcome to GiftWrap Wiki The wiki about Giftwrap that anyone can edit To write a new article, just enter the article title in the box below.

  https://giftwrap.fandom.com/wiki/GiftWrap_Wiki

• Roadmap

  Storing Package Metadata Dependency calculation ideas are welcome here.

  https://giftwrap.fandom.com/wiki/Roadmap

• Interface mockups

  This is an interface mockup for Giftwrap 0.2.0. I read in the wiki that a build queue might be useful, so I thought of a way to manage that graphically:

  https://giftwrap.fandom.com/wiki/Interface_mockups

• Vala-evaluation

  Vala (http://live.gnome.org/Vala) - "Vala is a new programming language that aims to bring modern programming language features to GNOME developers without imposing any additional runtime requirements and without using a different ABI

  https://giftwrap.fandom.com/wiki/Vala-evaluation

• Coding style

  /* filename.vala** Copyright (C) 20yy-20yy Copyright Holder email@address** License text.** Author:* Programmer Name programmer@email*/ Leave space between function/class declarations/calls and the parentheses public void hello () hello ();

  https://giftwrap.fandom.com/wiki/Coding_style

• Personas

  Various personas that GiftWrap is targetted at. Note about age ranges - we can expect them to be quite wide for any of the following.This is open-source, after all. Bob the developer[] experienced programmer

  https://giftwrap.fandom.com/wiki/Personas

• Launchpad integration

  GiftWrap should have Launchpad integration such that Requires a Python coder, see'Archive' section of the following: https://launchpad.net/+apidoc/ for documentation.

  https://giftwrap.fandom.com/wiki/Launchpad_integration

• Dependency detection

  Each buildtool (scons, autotools, waf,...) has its own dependecy checking, we could run that and scan the output to see what is missing. This should be in my opinion the first method that is being

  https://giftwrap.fandom.com/wiki/Dependency_detection

• Coding giftwrap

  Things to keep in mind while working on GiftWrap& its plugins: using the throws for functions that continue short time and signals for functions that may continue long time

  https://giftwrap.fandom.com/wiki/Coding_giftwrap

• Debian copyright

  Need to decide how to handle copyrighht file generation. Here's how debian/copyright, the packages license file (there is no meta field for this, it's a file) works:

  https://giftwrap.fandom.com/wiki/Debian_copyright

• Core methods

  Requires gconf[] retrieve users name - see http://giftwrap.wikia.com/wiki/Name_email_retrieval on how it should be done, same for email, same saving name/ email, getting a list of all projects saved, easy

  https://giftwrap.fandom.com/wiki/Core_methods

• Uploading to ppa

  The plugin will need to use dput on the given.changes while and a PPA. The interface will take care of only allowing it to be called when we actually prepared the package.

  https://giftwrap.fandom.com/wiki/Uploading_to_ppa

• Name email retrieval

  To automatically fill in the packagers name and email, we should take the following order of steps until a result is reached: check if we saved it from the last time, check if$DEBEMAIL/$DEBFULLNAME are

  https://giftwrap.fandom.com/wiki/Name_email_retrieval

• Project overview

  IRC& live contact: giftwrap on conference.jabber.org (jabber, not irc). Web client available here. Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~giftwrap (to be setup)

  https://giftwrap.fandom.com/wiki/Project_overview

• Development status

  This page will be kept updated with the latest thing a contributor to GiftWrap would be interested in. Next series in development is 0.2x: https://launchpad.net/giftwrap/0.2x

  https://giftwrap.fandom.com/wiki/Development_status

• Making a new release

  Update: gnomefiles.org, freshmeat

  https://giftwrap.fandom.com/wiki/Making_a_new_release

• FixBuggySeahorseConfig

  At some point in time, Seahorse was making a buggy gpg.conf file which made debuild not use it but ask for the pgp password from the user. As discussed on#ubuntu-motu, it's

  https://giftwrap.fandom.com/wiki/FixBuggySeahorseConfig