SkyVision is small on purpose: questions reach the people who wrote the build recipes. Pick the channel that fits how you like to talk.
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#skyvision for users, #skyvision-dev for development.
Logs are public; the channels are bridged to Matrix so nobody misses anything.
#skyvision:matrix.org — the same room as IRC, with history and
media. Best choice if you're not running a bouncer.
Old school and proud of it. Subscribe by emailing
+subscribe to:
announce@lists.longervision.us — releases only, low volume
users@lists.longervision.us — help & discussion
dev@lists.longervision.us — patches & recipe review
File issues at github.com/longervision ↗ with
sv-report output attached — it gathers kernel, svpkg and hardware info in one paste-able block.
The 1.0 repo has 1,842 packages and a public wishlist. Recipes are ~40-line shell files; the svpkg manual has a template, and dev@ reviews within a week.
Book errata, wiki gardening, and translations — Simplified Chinese (简体中文) is the first target, led from the forum's Teahouse.
~120 GB, rsync every 6 hours, and an email to mirrors@longervision.us. We list sponsors on the download page.
RC images appear on the announce list about six weeks before each release. Boot reports on real hardware — especially laptops — are gold.
Bandwidth and build machines are the project's only costs. One-time or monthly via Liberapay; finances are posted quarterly on the forum.
Be patient with beginners — every one of us once typed rm -rf in the wrong directory.
Critique recipes, not people. Moderators act on reports within 24 hours. The full text lives on the forum and applies to every channel above.
The #welcome thread is the friendliest place to start — tell us what hardware you're on and what brought you to a from-scratch distro.
