$100 to a Debian Developer who can get Fresh Editor into Trixie
I use Debian 13 in a regulated industry and I'm teaching people how to code in the context of large projects and TUI.
I want to use Fresh Editor (https://getfresh.dev/). This is because Fresh is easier to learn quickly than vim & emacs, and more of an IDE than micro & nano, and more favorable for compliance auditing because of its core-and-plugins architecture and open source code using Rust.
I would like to donate toward this goal. I can afford to offer $100 to any Debian Developer who has the suitable skill and trust to accomplish this. The software author must say yes too, of course.
Success looks like this: create a new Debian 13 server, type "apt install fresh-editor", and it works. No third-party apt sources needed, because I have compliance reasons. Fortunately Fresh already has a *.deb file and explains it on the Fresh installation page.
Here's the GitHub issue: https://github.com/sinelaw/fresh/issues/2169
I'm not affiliated with Fresh in any way, just a early adopter user. If you view the GitHub issues, I'm also offering $100 each for helping with Fresh display issues on MacBooks, and for adding Fresh ePub capabilities.
I'm doing this because I believe in funding open source as much as possible.
Out of the loop: Why not run this, from the top of the home page: curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sinelaw/fresh/refs/heads/m... | sh
IMO this isn't part of your OS; it's cross-platform PC software. Install it using the bin its creators have provided. They have even built and are hosting a Deb for your linux distro (From inspection of the script)
This isn't going to happen.
Debian Trixie has already been released. The packages going into Trixie were frozen on April 25, 2025. If you want a new package in the official Debian repos, it needs to be packaged for Unstable, then promoted to Testing, then eventually Testing will be cut as a Stable release. The next Testing freeze will probably be sometime next year.
Good info, thank you. I'll aim for the next version with $100 to get it into Debian 14. <3
thank you for creating gitalias, very useful!