On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 11:32:05PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Thomas Bushnell BSG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041006 23:25]: > > Unfortunately, most of what I have seen has been an attempt to have a > > new place that involves no actual backporting and publicity work, > > rather than volunteering to take that load on. > > Actually, I'm considering very much to pick the task up (and have also > already volatile.d.n ;), but there are some issues that needs to be > considered before doing a public announcement. >
Andreas, Great! I see volatile.debian.net. But, It took me forever to find this email :) Three questions: What issues? Anything the list can help with? (excessively curious and eager mind wishes to know ;) Would it be good to indicate on the web-page where communication about this is going on (inspired by my hunt-the-email saga)? How are packages added to the list of candidates? On a related-but-unrelated note, I'm interested, for myself, in the possibility of automatically packaging upstream releases. I'm already under the impression that this is contrary to the debian philosophy of hand-maintained packaging, so I suppose this interest is purely personal. Can anyone offer me any pointers? Regards, Paddy
