On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 02:34:55PM +0300, Eray Ozkural wrote: > > I'm not a debian developer yet (and seems like I won't even attempt till I > > feel that new maintainers are welcome), > > If you've got a really useful package done up that you think would add to > Debian, get someone to sponsor you.
I've heard the sponsorship idea, but I doubt it works gracefully. > > If you've got some free time, and just want to help, write some manpages, > fix some bugs, work on boot-floppies, stuff like that. > submitting bugs is the easiest, and I try to do it whenever possible. Though I'd prefer to code things. > Activity like that's *very* welcome. Specifically, I'm about to install a Debian based Beowulf-cluster. I'll package things up and make them available. I'm considering beowulf kernel patches, scripts, adm tools, doc, etc. Hopefully, installing beowulf nodes and server/development workstations that run Debian will be easier. > `baseconf', is, I guess, what the bootfloppies' dinstall program does. If > you're interested, you could probably mangle dinstall and debconf to come > up with something that achieves all that and more. I know what dinstall does. I thought of something that would help conf. a base system on an already installed system, actually being a front end to configuration scripts for the spooky base source I was talking about. > > > Another issue is the division of Debian archives and development into > > logical sections such that development gets a speed-up. In that respect, a > > minimal change to the current organization is necessary. > > Help make the current system work. Spend a couple of months on that, then > start thinking about what can be changed, having been a part of it on the > inside, as well as just watching. Definitely, that's what I should do. Though all the slink's I installed are working great except a couple of rare bugs. > > It's really not as horrible as everyone seems to want to make out. It's > got us to being among the very best distributions on just about every > level, and it's managing to keep us there, too. > Well, I think it's far from being horrible. So far, this is the only Linux distribution that cares about technical issues. Wht I proposed was meant to organize things in a way to improve on some of the aspects. In particular, I think the release work could be better coordinated if a logical higher level categorization is brought. > Cheers, > aj, wondering at what point he should killfile the naysayers instead of > trying to refute them > Keep cool, > -- > Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> > I don't speak for anyone save myself. PGP encrypted mail preferred. > > ``The thing is: trying to be too generic is EVIL. It's stupid, it > results in slower code, and it results in more bugs.'' > -- Linus Torvalds > __ exa
