[Librem-5-dev] Building and testing your own kernel

[Andy Green]

On 28/12/2018 19:48, Guido Günther wrote:
> Hi,
> On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 09:48:24AM +0100, Guido Günther wrote:
>> Hi,
>> On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 10:04:16AM +0800, Andy Green via Librem-5-dev wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 28/12/2018 07:18, David Boddie via Librem-5-dev wrote:
>>>> On Thu Dec 27 03:43:39 PST 2018, Dorota Czaplejewicz wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Andy,
>>>>>
>>>>> thank you for doing that work. We're normally building the kernel
>>>>> using image-builder [0], and we're currently using .debs for the
>>>>> kernel.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks, Andy!
>>>>
>>>>> I feel like this information belongs on some wiki, but we don't
>>>>> have one set up yet. I've started putting random useful info on
>>>>> my own page [1]. David, do you have any ideas?
>>>>
>>>> I have been using my fork of the documentation for stashing notes
>>>> about things:
>>>> https://source.puri.sm/david.boddie/developer.puri.sm/wikis/home
>>>>
>>>> We could just enable the wiki for the documentation:
>>>> https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/developer.puri.sm/wikis/home
>>>>
>>>> Andy, does that sound like it might be a useful place for you to
>>>> put stuff? We could use it as a staging area for things that
>>>> should end up in the documentation.
>>>
>>> Yes I think you're going to need the wiki.  Many developers will stay
>>> on-piste and just follow the blessed, existing flow, but part of the whole
>>> idea is some won't.  Then it will get expensive doing 1:1 chat for every
>>> detail needed to get them started.
>>>
>>> Information rots quickly but even so it usually doesn't all rot at the same
>>> rate and is worth keeping for a while.  At least information in the wiki
>>> that is rotting can be updated by others when they see it's out of date,
>>> which is harder to do for "documentation".
>>>
>>> I cloned it, added an article .md by hand, and registered my ssh pubkey with
>>> the site, but I can't push it back.
>>>
>>> $ git push ssh://warmcat@source.puri.sm/Librem5/developer.puri.sm.wiki.git
>>> +master:master
>>> warmcat at source.puri.sm's password:
>>
>> For changes to the official docs (which you're trying to push directly
>> to when using the above URL) you want to fork the repo first
>>
>>       https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/developer.puri.sm/forks/new
>>
>> to get your own copy. If you then push changes to that repo on a branch
>> different than master gitlab will show you an URL to create a merge
>> request. More details are here:
>>
>>       https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/gitlab-basics/add-merge-request.html
>>
>> The upside is that the CI tests run on the MRs right away making sure
>> the sphinx docs still build correctly.
> 
> As Dorota pointed out to me you wanted to push to the wiki not the dev
> docs repo. The URL there is
> 
>      git at source.puri.sm:Librem5/developer.puri.sm.wiki.git
>      ^^^

Ah got it, thanks.

I'll give this another go in the morning.

-Andy

> You always use the user git and gitlab figures out permissions by the
> used ssh key.
> Cheers,
>   -- Guido
> 
> 
>>
>> Cheers,
>>   -- Guido