Hi James, On Fri, Sep 22, 2006, James Richardson wrote: > I use galeon and would not mind helping out where I can. I am not a DD, but > I am a programmer, just give me a few hints as the best way to proceed.
I'm sorry I only notice your message now: this is because you sent it to the bug address, but the submitter of a bug doesn't receive this traffic, only the "maintainer" does, and in the case of "RFA" bugs there is no maintainer to receive these. Anyway, thanks for your offer. Here's a short summary that I should have sent when I proposed the package for adoption: Galeon is being phased out upstream; the short story is that the Epiphany web browser started as a fork of Galeon and gained plugins support, and this lead to a lot of duplication of code and maintenance; the long term goal is that Epiphany's plugins should offer the same functionalities as Galeon did. The long story is here: http://galeon.sourceforge.net/Main/GaleonFuture The bulk of the Galeon maintenance has always been done upstream, and I think most of the work was a result of API breakage between Mozilla releases. The Debian maintenance consisted of discussing with Debian bug submitters via the Debian BTS, forwarding confirmed bugs upstreams, pulling patches, and doing the usual distribution-wide maintenance (registering alternatives, updating build-deps, deps etc.). Upstream was very convenient to work with, but things have been getting slower lately and I've not been paying due attention to the package. If you're not a Debian Developper, I can still sponsor your uploads. You would need to understand how Debian packaging works, mostly by reading documentation from: <http://www.debian.org/devel/> You will also need to know a little about Subversion as the Galeon package is hosted in a SVN repository on Alioth, as explained in this bug report. If you are still interested, I suggest you start by looking at the open Debian bugs, perhaps trying to reproduce them, search for corresponding upstream bugs, or file new ones. I will grant you SVN access to work on the packaging or if you need to add patches, and you should ping me to review your work and upload it. Bye, -- Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Forget your stupid theme park! I'm gonna make my own! With hookers! And blackjack! In fact, forget the theme park!" -- Bender
