Hi, On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 11:51:53AM +0100, Jean Jacques BRUCKER wrote: > What's next ? What did I do wrong ? May someone with super powers > consider this package, and tells me if it can be integrated upstream
First of all: I am likely the wrong person to reply to this mail. Second: Reading someone say bad stuff about your "baby" is hard, but try to not get defensive – it is not an attack! "lightweight distribution management" – so that is some tool to be used by the release team of a distribution? No, it isn't, but even though I am an APT developer, I have no idea what it does. I /think/ based on the snippets I read that it is an apt wrapper script to help in creating package installation profiles and to keep machines following/switching between these profiles. Sort of like ansible/chef/ puppet/propellor/… but for packages only – but I am not sure and I got that impression mostly from your reply to Paul who was also asking what this thing does although in a less blunt way than I am now. Every other sentence I read has at least one typo in it – and I say that as a non-native English speaker who is an expert in producing a lot of mistakes in his writing. Ask your users for help! There is also the debian-l10n-english@ mailinglist for the last few points of excellence. Having "Contain a tool than enhance cron-apt and manage an apt sources.list with some extensions." as the start of the long description of a package is wrong on so many levels that I can't enumerate them all. I mentioned already, I am APT developer, so I am super biased in this, but stating even in the RFS that whatever kt-update does (still not sure) should be done by apt, but you don't want to contribute to apt and therefore forked (= not contributing to that one either) another wrapper of apt is not instilling a lot of confidence in me. And I think you mean well, but what the heck means "AUTHORS files has then been cleaned"? That sounds like you removed names from that file which makes my stomach hurt as contributions by people never really fully disappear (even if no line they wrote survives, the idea they had might). BUT even if that is all good and fine: That is one of the first things you wanna tell a prospecting sponsor about your package? Not about some killer feature, but about a dubiously clean text file? So, long story short, this all heavily lacks a bit of quality in the documentation or if you prefer "marketing" – completely ignoring what it does on a technical level because nobody (at least not me) will bother looking any closer. Finding a sponsor in this state might be even harder than it usually is. (And no, even if that package would be in tip-top shape, I am not available for sponsoring it or in all likelihood for further reviews. Supercow of 'apt moo' fame would be furious with me… 😉) Best regards & Happy new year David Kalnischkies
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