Mastodawn

Aral Balkan Jun 11, 2017

Want to make a huge contribution to Mastodon adoption?

Create and maintain a Debian package for Mastodon. If you know anyone fluent in making and maintaining Debian packages, please share this with them. Let’s reduce the complexity of installing Mastodon on Debian-based distributions (e.g., Ubuntu) down to running a single command and watch the instance numbers shoot up! :)

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/3576 https://mastodon.ar.al/media/LnF6IcwsXopEva_JTzg

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Queer Supervillainess

@aral @Gargron What do you mean by “a Debian package”, though?

If you mean any .deb, omnibus or fpm can do that, but that's not super useful on its own.

If you mean shipping it in Debian (and, consequently, in downstream distros), it means packaging (and maintaining) every single JS and Ruby distribution of Mastodon. It's not something “anyone fluent in Debian packaging” can do, it would be a massive, collaborative undertaking.