PawanYr added code to HaikuDepot for when no search results appear in the “Featured packages” tab, to show a “Click here to search all packages” message. This should hopefully allow new users to more easily figure out how to use HaikuDepot, rather than seeing no results and assuming the packages must not be there.
It seems activity is decreasing lately,you mentioned in the report for commit activity and I feel the same with forum activity.
During the last years it mostly seemed like activity here (and public knowledge that this project exists) was steadily increasing.
I really want to see Haiku succeed and I hope we can get back to growing activity here soon.
Maybe I can also contribute something again,haven’t done that lately because it’s rather difficult to get stuff through review most times.
“most months, at this point, there are more commits to HaikuPorts than Haiku, and sometimes by a significant margin, too … I think overall this is a sign of Haiku’s growing maturity: the system seems stable enough that the porters can do their work without uncovering too many bugs in Haiku that interrupt or halt their progress.”
This may well be the most important statement in Haiku’s history.
We’re also slowly starting to see programmers creating Haiku versions outside of Haikuports, even without necessarily making HPKGs. e.g.
