Community
SkyVision is small on purpose: questions reach the people who wrote the build recipes. Pick the channel that fits how you like to talk.
Longer Vision Linux Forum
forum.longervision.us · single sign-on with the wiki
- Announcements — releases & security advisories (read-only)
- Installation & hardware — boot, drivers, laptops, GPUs
- svpkg & packaging — recipes, repo requests, build failures
- The Book — questions and errata, chapter by chapter
- Development — toolchain, init scripts, 1.1 planning
- The Teahouse 茶馆 — off-topic, show your desktop
No account needed to read. Solutions are marked ✓ and indexed by search engines.
IRC — Libera.Chat
#skyvision for users, #skyvision-dev for development. Logs are public; the channels are bridged to Matrix so nobody misses anything.
Matrix
#skyvision:matrix.org — the same room as IRC, with history and media. Best choice if you're not running a bouncer.
Mailing lists
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
Ways to help
bug Report bugs
File issues at github.com/longervision ↗ with sv-report output attached — it gathers kernel, svpkg and hardware info in one paste-able block.
pkg Package recipes
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.
doc Docs & translation
Book errata, wiki gardening, and translations — Simplified Chinese (简体中文) is the first target, led from the forum’s Teahouse.
mir Host a mirror
~120 GB, rsync every 6 hours, and an email to mirrors@longervision.us. We list sponsors on the download page.
test Test pre-releases
RC images appear on the announce list about six weeks before each release. Boot reports on real hardware — especially laptops — are gold.
♥ Donate
Bandwidth and build machines are the project’s only costs. One-time or monthly via Liberapay; finances are posted quarterly on the forum.
coc Code of conduct, the short version
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.
Say hello.
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.