Le Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:04:59PM +0000, Steve McIntyre a écrit : > > I can also see that you have your own menu/desktop topic there too > that I expect you'll want to raise. What are your plans for that? > > [1] http://wiki.debian.org/DiscussionsAfterLenny
Hi Steve, First I plan to produce a document that presents the proposal whith avoiding misunderstandings, and to present it when the issues on top of the list will have been solved. I will not jump the queue. Then the first issue is programmatic: the Debian Menu is managed by some software written in C, and I am not a C programmer. So the goal of the kick-off discussion will not only be to get a broad consensus that using the fd.o format is good, but also to convince somebody to write the code. I think that the main argument for the proposal is that after swithching to a widespread format, we can submit Upstream the fd.o menu entries that can be used as is (and I really think that it will be the majority), which would be a nice contribution from Debian to the communauty, and would also reduce the complexity of our packages and in the end reduce our workload (especially now that we have triggers). Then goes the hard work: bug reporting, acceptance of the switch by DDs, writing a Lintian check, submitting entries in Upstream BTSes, subitting patches in our BTS, commiting patches in some VCSes,… I hope that by the time all of this is started, the discussions on the quality of our archive will have beared fruits and that we will be less shy removing packages that are obviously unmaintained and that nowbody wants to adopt. Last year I reviewed the debtags of ~100 packages in one month and a half; this makes me confident that if I have a few monthes plus some help, I can fuel perseverance and get the transition done. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
