Hello Axel, Is this team going to take care of upstream maintenance too ? IIRC, there's been no upstream development in some time.
On Tue, 2016-05-24 at 00:27 +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: > Control: retitle -1 ITA: wicd -- wired and wireless network manager > Control: owner -1 Debian WICD Packaging Team <pkg-wicd-ma...@lists.alioth.debi > an.org> > Control: tag -1 + pending > > Hi, > > over the past half year I've seen quite some interest in contributing > to wicd's packaging, especially with contributions from non-DDs like > Salvo 'LtWorf' Tomaselli (did an NMU), toogley and just recently Giáp > Trần. > > But since they're no DDs, they had no commit access to the > collab-maint project on Alioth: Salvo's NMU has been imported by me, > toogley published his changes on Github and I synced them from there, > and Giáp used "git format-patch" and sent the changes to me by e-mail. > > So to allow non-DDs to easier participate (and less relying on me ;-) > in maintaining Debian's wicd package, I've created a pkg-wicd project > on Alioth and move wicd's packaging git repository there: > > https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-wicd/ > https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-wicd/wicd.git (the web interface > still doesn't work, but I was able to push to > git+ssh://git.debian.org/git/pkg-wicd/wicd.git) > > To still benefit from occasional contributions from various DDs as > seen in the past and possible with a collab-maint project, I > configured the pkg-wicd Alioth project to grant any DD commit access. > That way non-DDs can easier get commit access while still having all > advantages of a collab-maint project. > > I'm happy to add anyone to the pkg-wicd group on Alioth who wants to > help maintaining the wicd package. Either tell me by e-mail (include > your Alioth user name) or use the web form at > https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-wicd/. > > I'd be especially happy if those who worked on the wicd package in the > past would join the team, or at least the mailing list at > https://alioth.debian.org/mail/?group_id=101007 > > Another thing I'd be happy about would be if at least one more DD > would join the team, so that I can give him or her administrative > access to the project to reduce the bus-factor. Being listed in > Uploaders is _no_ requirement for that position. Gianfranco, Ritesh, > Mattia, Emanuele, anyone? :-) > > Regards, Axel -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs Debian - The Universal Operating System
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