Linux Lite on Bountysource

[Jerry]

Thanks to a very generous donation from wirezfree, I've increased the bounty to $60 on Lite Software https://www.bountysource.com/issues/7753458-bounty-for-new-features-for-lite-software

[Scott]

  That's great news. New contributions (in any form) are always exciting and motivating.

[Jerry]

Our first contribution from the outside has started work on the Lite Software bounty, details here - https://github.com/linuxlite/litesoftware/pull/7 I've also updated our Dev page - https://www.linuxliteos.com/code.html

[anon222]

Some code wizard will hopefully step in.

1) Replace the old progress bar on the installers with percentage and speed.
This is the best I can do:

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stdbuf -oL -eL sudo apt-get install -y clementine --show-progress |  stdbuf -oL sed -n -e 's/Progress:[ ]\[//;s/%\]//;s/^[ \t]*//p' -e '/^.\{3\}..*/ s/^/#/p' | zenity --progress --auto-close
The progress bar is working only on the install part. It doesn't start when downloading. The bar starts when installation starts. No idea how to add download progress and speed and combine them with installation into a single progress bar.

2) If a user selects multiple programs to install, the installer will no longer run each script individually, all of their choices will be combined into one.
That would be awesome. I guess the script can make a list of packages to install and later use the list when installing packages.

[Scott]

Great news, hopefully the programmers will beat down the door to collect the bounties.

[Jerry]

With the goal of continually improving our software, I've opened an account on Bountysource and will start offering bounties on features we want to add to our custom software.

How it works:

1) The Linux Lite team requests a feature to be added to existing LL software.
2) We then attach a bounty (a $dollar amount) to that feature request.
3) There are 3 ways you can fund new features to our existing software:

- you can send us a donation on our Bountysource page here - https://www.bountysource.com/teams/linuxlite
- send us a donation on our website here - https://www.linuxliteos.com/donate.html and a note saying the donation is for our Bountysource page, mention what feature you want added, and we will place the feature request ourselves providing it is something we agree on. I would recommend you contact us first before making a donation so you're not paying for something that won't end up in our software.
- my personal preference, send us a donation here - https://www.linuxliteos.com/donate.html and attach a note saying you want to boost an existing bounty eg. from $40 to $45 as an incentive to encourage development.

Funding for bounties requested by Linux Lite will be sourced from our donations. This is win win for everyone involved.

Our Bountysource page is here - https://www.bountysource.com/people/29895-linuxlite and is plugged into our Github page as convenience for developers.

We've posted our first Bounty which can be viewed here - https://www.bountysource.com/issues/7753458-bounty-for-new-features-for-lite-software

This announcement is just a quick overview, if you have any questions please let me know.