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[Ed's note: ASCII is the name given to the next release of Devuan]
"Dear D1rs,
there will be a Devuan ASCII sprint on 15-16-17th December 2017 (this coming weekend). The aim is to squash a few outstanding bugs in Devuan ASCII, with the view of preparing a beta release.
Some of the tasks require "hands-on" to the repos and other services, but virtually everybody else can help by testing packages, fixes, upgrade paths, patches, installation material, and so on, so anybody with some time to spare over the next week-end is welcome to join.
A list of currently outstanding bugs relevant for ASCII can be found at:
http://bugs.devuan.org//cgi/pkgreport.cgi?which=tag&data=ascii
If you can provide more info on those bugs, or patches, or anything, be prepared to do so.
There is no fixed schedule so far, but the best way to get in touch and "do things" is probably by hanging around on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday on #devuan-dev. More detailed information will be provided sooner [closer?] to the date.
Come on, let's put ASCII out.
The Dev1Devs "
https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20171211.190051.843303de.en.html
(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Wednesday December 13 2017, @11:46AM
It was slightly a disappointment to find out that they actually ship with very old packages. But KDE was snappier, so I went on.
Their testing (referred here as ASCII) is mostly broken if you want to use KDE, so thins is a good news for me. Not because I want the latest version of KDE, no! But because currently ASCII won't let you run KDE at all. And I want a version of cmake that is at least 3.1 which added support for C++11.
Meanwhile, I have compiled my own binary of latest cmake, so the problem is mitigated.
All in all, I am quite happy.