@kyle ok, I know it took me longer than you'd have liked ideally, but I'm entertaining the idea of contributing. My time is still madly limited, so I don't know that expecting anything is in order yet. But when I do get some time, how should I go about getting involved in contributing to Librem's Mastodon fork?
@f1337 That would be wonderful! I think the most useful contribution at the moment would be looking to adapt the patches made to our smilodon fork (https://source.puri.sm/liberty/host/smilodon/) that disable DMs and local/federated timelines etc, to the recent 4.0 release so we can upgrade to it.
@kyle
Awesome, thank you, I'll start looking!
@kyle created my source.puri.sm account. While I'm awaiting admin approval, are the deltas betw Smilodon & Mastodon covered in the list of merged PRs?
@f1337 I believe so.
@kyle
Ok so if I'm seeing the whole piece, it's really 1 massive PR that has all the backend changes. The rest appear to be UI tweaks. I am reading the big boi now.
@kyle
The big boi isn't as scary as it first appears. The add'l specs do a good job of communicating intent. Am I gonna freak anyone out if I throw my autistic energy at it this weekend through next?
@f1337 Not at all! We'd welcome the help!
@kyle
Ok I have the sysadmin steps for the upgrade to 4.0.2 written out long form, and a tl;Dr of just what to do. Once I get into gitlab, I'll copy my notes into a PR. Do we run in docker or something else?
@kyle
Working through merge conflicts. I hope the real time notes are ok? If not, lmk, I'll chill.
@f1337 I'll see about setting up a Matrix chat for you Monday with some folks on the team to share your progress and findings.
@kyle
Do y'all have a chat space you lurk in? Does anyone want the play by play feedback on this? Like I see we're at 3.12, Imma start upgrading to 3.54, following the upgrade docs for each, per Masto docs. Then apply 4.0.2. Fixing what breaks along the way. That kinda noise? Do you want it somewhere? 😂