Re: state of the ’Pond for earnest tadpoles

[Federico Bruni]

Il giorno ven, gen 1 2021 at 16:37:40 -0500, Kieren MacMillan 
<kieren_macmillan@sympatico.ca> ha scritto:
> Hi Jonas (et al.),
>
> >  I would claim that the contributor experience has been pretty stable
> >  since the initial switch to GitLab. Enabling CI and the recent work 
> > to
> >  also run 'make check' automatically shouldn't change much from a
> >  contributor's point of view, I hope.
> >  I can't promise to give detailed guidance, the procedures should be
> >  described in unstable's CG, but if there's anything unclear or even
> >  wrong I'm more than happy to help you and of course fix the docs.
>
> So here’s what I’ve done, as per 
> <https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/contributor/lilydev>:
>
> 1. Download & install VirtualBox. No problem!
>
> 2. Download LilyDev 2 from 
> <https://github.com/fedelibre/LilyDev/releases/tag/v2>. Um… 
> There’s only one file that seems like it’s the downloadable one 
> (LilyDev-2-debian-vm.zip), and it’s not named as per the docs 
> ("lilydev-vm-fedora-VERSION"). Is that a doc problem, or am I being 
> daft?
>
> 3. Unzip the downloaded file. It becomes a folder containing an .img 
> file. Okay… except the docs claim it should be a "raw" file. So do 
> I try to convert that to VDI?
>
> Note: I’m on Mac OS High Sierra (10.13.6).

Hi Kieren

Sorry, it's my fault: I've been busy in other stuff and I forgot 
LilyDev.
I'll try to make a new release soon.

The command to convert to VDI is here:
https://github.com/fedelibre/LilyDev/tree/master/mkosi