Thanks Alessandro. I think I'm comfortable with the idea of starting out with a library & am willing to deal with any extra learning curve that comes with that. Thanks too for the pointers RE: documentation -- looks like I've got some reading to do. :)
I'll attempt to update this bug to reflect its ITA status, though I'm not sure if permissions on the bug tracker will prevent me from doing that. I'll nudge this ticket again if it seems like I can't. Once that's done, I'll check out the code from git & update the control file etc. I'm assuming I won't have access to push to that repository even after I take over as maintainer, correct? Is it typical for somebody in my position to continue maintaining the package using third-party infrastructure (e.g. github)? If so, I'll update the Vcs-* fields, too. Last of all, you mentioned that you're willing to sponsor uploads. I guess I can just build new packages & put them up somewhere, then ping you when there's something that needs your attention? Appreciate your patience & apologies if I'm asking questions here that are answered by the documentation you provided! Cheers, Tom On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 6:55 AM, Alessandro Ghedini <al3x...@gmail.com>wrote: > On 10/17, Tom Lee wrote: > > Hi Alessandro, > > Hi, > > > I'm a long time Debian user who's eager to contribute. I have a fair bit > of > > experience with Debian packaging, but this would be my first > > "official" package. > > > > No doubt I'd have a bit of a learning curve ahead of me with regard to > process > > & policy, but if you think that hiredis is appropriate for somebody > like me > > to take on, I'd be happy to adopt it. > > Well, the "hard" part (i.e. the initial packaging) has been already done > and > it's pretty standard except for a couple of patches to the build system and > another couple of odd things. > > Though some people believe that library packages are not the best way to > start > packaging for Debian because they are usually a little bit harder, but if > you > want to try and are willing to learn you are very welcome. > > You may want to start by the first 3 manuals at [0] which document pretty > much > all you need to know (particularly the New Maintainers' Guide). > > Cheers > > [0] http://www.debian.org/doc/devel-manuals > > -- > perl -E '$_=q;$/= @{[@_]};and s;\S+;<inidehG ordnasselA>;eg;say~~reverse' >
