On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 06:38:00AM +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote: > Hey James, > > On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 3:00 AM, James McCoy <james...@debian.org> wrote: > > I request assistance with maintaining the devscripts package. > > > > I don't have the time, nor have I for awhile, to properly keep up with > > devscripts maintenance. > > I'd be interested to help: how do you want to do this?
There's devscripts-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org and #devscripts for coordination. I still plan on working on devscripts, but I need more people to help out. I've pretty much only been able to apply provided patches or make simple bug fixes lately. There have been bigger contributions (like Osamu Aoki's current uscan work) or enhancements that have been requested that I haven't had time to review/implement. > what is the > most important area to work on? Like most packages, triage and handling bug reports. Other than that, there's no single item that I think is “most important”. I'd like the scripts to become more cohesive instead of just a collection of random scripts. To that end, some mouldarization of the code would be useful. * Consolidate the handling of how user configuration (both config file and command-line) is performed, particularly in the Perl scripts (c.f., TODO item in debcheckout.pl). * Consolidate common functionality like DEVSCRIPTS_CHECK_DIRNAME_LEVEL/REGEX * Work on making some of the larger, more complicated scripts more maintainable. Cheers, -- James GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <james...@debian.org>
