Hello Julien, On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 21:41, Julien Lavergne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I found that some packages have watch files broken, so I tried to fix > some of them. The 2 first I found (phat and vbetool) was orphaned and > maintaining by the QA team. So I looked at them, fixed the watch file
first of all, let me thank you for working on orphaned packages. > and some others easy things. But now I don't know what to do : > - Can I request a review of this changes for an upload ? (they are > available on mentors) well, send a normal RFS (I used to put debian-qa@lists.debian.org in CC, jsut in case) to debian-mentors; personally, I tend to give higher prority to QA uploads and for updated packages (instead of completely new packages) so I may upload them :) > Maybe QA upload are only for fixing serious bugs ? Of course not! anyhow, just a watch file fix does not warrant an upload: you can try to get the packages in a good shape, updating to the current standards, fixing some bug, fixing lintian errors/warnings or so. > - Do I need to adopt this packages ? I'm not using them, so I don't > think I can be a good maintainer. Not needed, QA uploads are done on packages still orphaned but that find someone willing to invest her time in updating them. > Just to know how the QA team work and if I can continue this type of > correction, or if it's not necessary or useless :) They are much very welcome, and I encourage to work on them: you can learn *a lot* from these kind of uploads. There are so many oprhaned packages that need love :) A warning: before working on a qa upload, check if the package can be removed instead (because it's very outdated, has better replacement, and so on). Cheers, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, Morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
