Published 17th Nov 2019 by Dylan Araps.

This week in KISS (#1)

Welcome to the first "This week in KISS"!

The aim of these posts will be to highlight the development of KISS week by week to hopefully give a better look at the overall status of the project.

A big thank you to all contributors and a big thank you to everyone using KISS!

Index

• Highlights
  • The Wiki is live
  • The subreddit is open
  • KISS ported to ppc64le
• Patch status
• Official Repositories
• Community

Highlights

The Wiki is live

The KISS wiki is now live. The wiki is simply a regular GitHub wiki with a sprinkle of magic to automatically update the website on contributions.

• KISS Wiki
• Wiki source

The subreddit is open

The subreddit is now open as another means of communication related to KISS. This new communication channel compliments the IRC and GitHub well for discussion.

• /r/kisslinux

KISS ported to ppc64le

Work has started on a ppc64le port of KISS. This is being worked on by jdavies-dev and development can be followed here.

Initial test tarballs can be found here.

Patch status

With the latest dhcpcd update, the number of patches in the core repository is down to one!

I'm currently working on documenting each of our patches and upstreaming as many of them as I can.

The current numbers are as follows:

• core: 1
• extra: 19 (Firefox makes up 8)
• xorg: 1

You can follow the progress here: repo #109

Official Repositories

• Dylan Araps:
  • 1aa586e sowm: bump to 1.0
  • f8c84af vim: bump to 8.1.2024
  • d32c9c1 vim: bump to 8.1.2024
  • 4e706b4 perl: bump to 5.30.1
  • 45412fd vim: bump to 8.1.2024
  • be557ff linux-headers: bump to 5.3.10
  • 59d3c75 firefox: better referer settings.
  • cb38df7 firefox (71): better referer settings.
  • ed6d2f0 firefox (beta): bump to 71.0b8
  • f483bd5 vim: bump to 8.1.2024
  • 9f6ae40 firefox: bump to 71.0b9
  • 71f3777 kiss: bump to 0.53.6
  • b322506 x265: cleaner build
  • c8d801f libjpeg-turbo: cleaner build
  • 7605b5c vim: bump to 8.1.2024
  • de032cb firefox: fix checksums
  • 96cbae7 dhcpcd: bump to 8.1.2
  • 3734fa8 vim: bump to 8.1.2024
  • 8a95a1f llvm: better build
  • 5469b31 clang: better build
  • cea9d37 mesa: bump to 19.2.4
  • a67dd79 libressl: Add post-install script
  • 6728a52 alsa-lib: bump to 1.2.1
  • b09aaa7 alsa-utils: bump to 1.2.1
  • 520b023 firefox (beta): bump to 71.0b10
  • 969bd38 vim: bump to 8.1.2024
  • 3a36ae2 cmake: build with cmake if available
  • d63fa1a cmake: use bundled libs
  • 8c3faba vim: bump to 8.1.2024

Community

• Adam Laughlin:
  • 209ec98 spotifyd: new package at 0.2.20 (#76)
  • ae3e1f0 cmus: new package at 2.8.0 (#77)
  • 17678ff libmad: new package at 0.15.1b (#78)
  • 7ef6e04 xorriso: new package at 1.5.2 (#84)
  • ad6f93a libxkbcommon: new package at 0.9.1 (#81)
  • 905f2f2 yajl: new package at 2.1.0 (#80)
  • ca7f483 libpcre: new package at 8.43 (#79)
  • 7c2b7d2 xcb-util-xrm: new package at 1.3 (#82)
  • f5e0fa3 sdl: new package at 1.2.15 (#86)
  • b5e9d89 sdl2: new package at 2.0.10 (#85)
• Dylan Araps:
  • 0a5dd91 bdftopcf: new package at 1.1
  • 56c74c8 terminus-font: new package at 4.48
  • ca66764 dmenu: fix depends
  • e66799c luajit: new package at 2.0.5
  • e9fdd27 libpcre: rename to pcre
  • 2326366 libev: new package at 4.27
  • 2eea948 libev: move into community
  • 248374d i3-gaps: new package at 4.17.1
  • 05530f5 i3-gaps: fix checksums
  • 775cb49 neovim: bump to 0.4.3
  • 16ac4dc ripgrep: new package at 11.0.2. Closes #5
  • ad00e01 fd: new package at 7.4.0. Closes #6
• Will Eccles:
  • ad5ba40 neovim: new package at 0.4.2 (#49)