My username on salsa is jallwine. John Allwine Owner of Allwine Designs https://www.allwinedesigns.com
> On Jun 5, 2025, at 12:02 PM, Andreas Tille <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi John, > > thanks a lot for your prompt response! > > Am Thu, Jun 05, 2025 at 06:13:21AM -0600 schrieb John Allwine: >> Hi Andreas, >> >> I would love for stlcmd to get the attention it needs to stay up to date in >> Debian. > > Great. I'm really happy to learn that you want to stick to this > package. Admittedly I'm not an expert at all in 3-D printing and I > definitely need help in testing the package. > >> It’s my first and only submission to Debian and a mentor helped me get it >> initially submitted, but I never knew what to do next to get it up to date >> and that mentor never responded to my inquiries. > > Unfortunately this happens from time to time. We are just volunteers > and some mentors might move on. Since I have the impression that the > code is not updated very frequently I think I can try to offer some > help to you. > >> I’m happy to stay involved with the project, but am probably not the best >> option for the one responsible for the Debian packaging piece. > > I'd love to empower you to be more self-confident in to try again. ;-) > I'd recomment to create a login at > https://salsa.debian.org > (in case you do not have one yet) and tell me your login name. I would > add you to the project so you get push permissions. Or you even might > work via MR in case this makes you more confident. Please make sure > you ping me in both cases via e-mail. > > If you want to learn a bit about packaging and my sponsoring / mentoring > style I'd recommend this document > > > https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/community/MoM/-/wikis/Mentoring-of-the-Month-(MoM) > > For sure you have no interest in Debian Med - but most of the stuff > that's written down there should be applicable to stlcmd as well. > > Just let me know if you need further help. > > Kind regards > Andreas. > >> John Allwine >> Owner of Allwine Designs >> https://www.allwinedesigns.com >> >>>> On Jun 5, 2025, at 5:49 AM, Andreas Tille <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Source: stlcmd >>> Version: 1.1-1 >>> Severity: important >>> X-Debbugs-Cc: Debian 3-D Printing Packages >>> <[email protected]>, John Allwine >>> <[email protected]>, [email protected], >>> [email protected], Package Salvaging Team >>> <[email protected]> >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm interested in salvaging your package stlcmd, in accordance with the >>> Package Salvaging procedure outlined in the Developers Reference[1]. >>> Your package meets the criteria for this process, and I would love to >>> assist in preserving and maintaining it. As the Salvage process >>> suggests, here is a list of the criteria that apply, in my opinion: >>> >>> >>> - Bugs filed against the package do not have answers from the >>> maintainer. >>> - Upstream has released new version, but despite there being >>> a bug entry asking for it, it has not been packaged. >>> - There are QA issues with the package. >>> >>> >>> I believe your package would be a great addition to the Debian 3-D >>> Printing team, and I took the liberty to create the Salsa repository >>> here[2]. If you choose not to accept the ITS, I'd be more than happy to >>> help you move it to another location, such as debian/, or wherever you >>> prefer. My goal is to make it as easy as possible for you to join the >>> team. I'd also be delighted to assist in adding you as a team member if >>> you could share your Salsa login. >>> >>> Your package was highlighted in the Bug of the Day[3] initiative, which >>> aims to introduce newcomers to manageable tasks and guide them through >>> the workflow to solve them. The focus of this initiative is on migrating >>> packages to Salsa, as it's a great way to familiarize newcomers with a >>> consistent Git-based workflow. >>> >>> Kind regards >>> Andreas. >>> >>> PS: I do not plan to upload a salvaged package before the Trixie >>> release to not influenze the freeze process. >>> >>> [1] >>> https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.en.html#package-salvaging >>> [2] https://salsa.debian.org/3dprinting-team/stlcmd >>> [3] https://salsa.debian.org/qa/tiny_qa_tools/-/wikis/Tiny-QA-tasks >>> >>> -- System Information: >>> Debian Release: 13.0 >>> APT prefers testing >>> APT policy: (501, 'testing'), (50, 'buildd-unstable'), (50, 'unstable'), >>> (5, 'experimental'), (1, 'buildd-experimental') >>> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) >>> >>> Kernel: Linux 6.12.27-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT) >>> Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), >>> LANGUAGE=de_DE:de >>> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash >>> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) >>> LSM: AppArmor: enabled >> > > -- > https://fam-tille.de
