$100 to a Debian Developer who can get Fresh Editor into Trixie
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by jph
6 hours ago
| 3 comments
| HN
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.

ahsgdfh
3 hours ago
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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.

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jph
3 hours ago
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Good info, thank you. I'll aim for the next version with $100 to get it into Debian 14. <3
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the__alchemist
1 hour ago
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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)

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atsaloli
2 hours ago
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thank you for creating gitalias, very useful!
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