Read through https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianPerlGroup and 
https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianPerlGroup/Welcome, so I’ve signed up to 
Salsa and sent a Debian Perl Group introduction email.

 

We’ll see how that goes. Depending on the process, I might add details to the 
Koha wiki suggesting that route. 

 

David Cook

Systems Librarian

Prosentient Systems

72/330 Wattle St

Ultimo, NSW 2007

Australia

 

Office: 02 9212 0899

Direct: 02 8005 0595

 

From: Koha-devel <koha-devel-boun...@lists.koha-community.org> On Behalf Of 
dc...@prosentient.com.au
Sent: Friday, 29 November 2019 1:15 PM
To: 'Renvoize, Martin' <martin.renvo...@ptfs-europe.com>; 'Chris Cormack' 
<chr...@catalyst.net.nz>
Cc: 'Koha Devel' <koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org>
Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] Submitting Debian packages to Koha's APT repository

 

Hi Martin,

 

Thanks for your message. That all makes a lot of sense.

 

I’d be happy to provide additional support for packaging, but I’m unaware of 
the processes for providing it. (I can’t commit to taking on the Packaging 
manager role, but I’m happy to support the person in that role.)

 

The more I think about it, the more I see the merit of Chris’s approach. It 
looks like the Debian Perl Group or Debian would provide Git hosting, so the 
work could live there. 

 

When a package is built, do we email it to the Release Manager or the Packaging 
Manager? Is there a file server that we upload to? If I had the file ready 
right now, what would the next step be?

 

David Cook

Systems Librarian

Prosentient Systems

72/330 Wattle St

Ultimo, NSW 2007

Australia

 

Office: 02 9212 0899

Direct: 02 8005 0595

 

From: Renvoize, Martin <martin.renvo...@ptfs-europe.com 
<mailto:martin.renvo...@ptfs-europe.com> > 
Sent: Thursday, 28 November 2019 7:30 PM
To: Chris Cormack <chr...@catalyst.net.nz <mailto:chr...@catalyst.net.nz> >
Cc: David Cook <dc...@prosentient.com.au <mailto:dc...@prosentient.com.au> >; 
Mirko Tietgen <mi...@abunchofthings.net <mailto:mi...@abunchofthings.net> >; 
Koha Devel <koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org 
<mailto:koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org> >
Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] Submitting Debian packages to Koha's APT repository

 

I have reached out to Mirko a couple of times so far, I think he's just very 
busy.  

 

He's also got the challenge of investigating how we can support D10 packages on 
his plate, not to mention I'm currently waiting on his go ahead for the 
imminent release as it will be a security release, so needs to go out at the 
same time as the anouncements.

 

Really, this is just another highlight that as a community were struggling to 
fill all the roles more and more of late.

 

It's wonderful that some of our long standing volunteers keep stepping in to 
fill the gaps year after year, but it's a big commitment and they 
understandably reach burn out and struggle with other commitments the longer 
they are in post. Translations management and Packaging are both areas where I 
feel this has happened of late, I can't fault the current volunteers, but 
they're clearly under allot of pressure and could do with some additional 
support or the opportunity to hand over and step back for a few cycles.

 

Going back to packaging, as I think Chris has tried to highlight, it's not just 
a matter of packaging a dependency for the first time and your done.. if we 
want to take on such a dependancy there is also an ongoing maintainence cost to 
be considered which is why I always check in with Mirko about its viability 
rather than just instructing him to take it on.

 

 

On Thu, 28 Nov 2019, 3:43 am Chris Cormack, <chr...@catalyst.net.nz 
<mailto:chr...@catalyst.net.nz> > wrote:

Hi David

Yes if you have a packaged working version of the package someone will
get it into the repository.
(The easiest way to get a good quality working package is to follow the
guidelines of the debian perl group)

Chris

On 28/11/19 2:11 pm, dc...@prosentient.com.au <mailto:dc...@prosentient.com.au> 
 wrote:
> Well, that's the part where I'm confused. If Joonas or I package the 
> dependency, can we get it into the Koha APT repo ASAP? 
> 
> My first priority is resolving Bug 13193 as soon as possible. Martin has 
> already agreed to push the change, but we're just waiting on the dependency 
> being available. I figure it'll be in the Koha APT repo before it's in Debian 
> stable (one way or another), so I'm trying to facilitate getting that 
> dependency in there one way or another. 
> 
> If Joonas or I can package the dependency and submit it somewhere or to 
> someone to get it into the Koha APT repository, I'm sure we'd both make the 
> time to do so. That's really what I'd like to know at this point.
> 
> Otherwise, I imagine we might package it but maintain it locally, and that 
> seems suboptimal for everyone. (But is more optimal than leaving the bug 
> unpatched.)
> 
> David Cook
> Systems Librarian
> Prosentient Systems
> 72/330 Wattle St
> Ultimo, NSW 2007
> Australia
> 
> Office: 02 9212 0899
> Direct: 02 8005 0595
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Cormack <chr...@catalyst.net.nz <mailto:chr...@catalyst.net.nz> > 
> Sent: Thursday, 28 November 2019 12:00 PM
> To: dc...@prosentient.com.au <mailto:dc...@prosentient.com.au> ; 
> koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org 
> <mailto:koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org> 
> Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] Submitting Debian packages to Koha's APT repository
> 
> It's really not much more than packaging it to a reasonable standard to get 
> it in the Koha APT repo, and then maintaining it forever.
> Which if it doesn't end up in Debian, becomes your responsibility.
> 
> Chris
> 
> On 28/11/19 1:32 pm, dc...@prosentient.com.au 
> <mailto:dc...@prosentient.com.au>  wrote:
>> I had a feeling that you were going to suggest that, Chris. Hehe.
>>
>>  
>>
>> That does sound reasonable, although it seems like a very large time 
>> commitment at this point. (I’ve thought about taking over the
>> idzebra-2.0 package but that one has seemed like too much 
>> time/responsibility as well, which is maybe why no one else has taken 
>> it over yet either.) Then again it might be one of those things that 
>> once I’m in and used to the Debian Perl group that it would be less of 
>> an issue than I imagine.
>>
>>  
>>
>> David Cook
>>
>> Systems Librarian
>>
>> Prosentient Systems
>>
>> 72/330 Wattle St
>>
>> Ultimo, NSW 2007
>>
>> Australia
>>
>>  
>>
>> Office: 02 9212 0899
>>
>> Direct: 02 8005 0595
>>
>>  
>>
>> *From:*Koha-devel <koha-devel-boun...@lists.koha-community.org 
>> <mailto:koha-devel-boun...@lists.koha-community.org> > *On 
>> Behalf Of *Chris Cormack
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, 27 November 2019 8:24 PM
>> *To:* koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org 
>> <mailto:koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org> 
>> *Subject:* Re: [Koha-devel] Submitting Debian packages to Koha's APT 
>> repository
>>
>>  
>>
>> The best way to do it is to join the debian perl group and package it 
>> that way.
>>
>> Robin
>> https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=ro...@catalyst.net.nz
>> I
>> https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=chr...@catalyst.net.nz
>> And Mirko
>> https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?email=mirko%40abunchofthings.net
>>
>> Have been doing that.
>> This way it gets into debian, and ubuntu as a result. And the package 
>> you create for submission there will be of a high enough standard to 
>> go on to debian.koha-community.org <http://debian.koha-community.org>  until 
>> it gets into a stable release.
>>
>> If we do it that way, the debian security team watch the package too.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> On 27 November 2019 3:12:10 PM NZDT, dc...@prosentient.com.au 
>> <mailto:dc...@prosentient.com.au>  
>> <mailto:dc...@prosentient.com.au <mailto:dc...@prosentient.com.au> > wrote:
>>
>>     Hi all,
>>
>>      
>>
>>     Joonas Kylmälä and I have been waiting about 2 months for a Debian
>>     package dependency on “Bug 13193 - Make Memcached usage fork safe”
>>     https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=13193.
>>
>>      
>>
>>     I don’t know if Mirko is just busy or hasn’t seen it, but is there
>>     any way that we could build the package and submit it to the
>>     community repository?
>>
>>      
>>
>>     This is a critical bug in Koha, so it would be good to get this
>>     resolved ASAP.
>>
>>      
>>
>>     David Cook
>>
>>     Systems Librarian
>>
>>     Prosentient Systems
>>
>>     72/330 Wattle St
>>
>>     Ultimo, NSW 2007
>>
>>     Australia
>>
>>      
>>
>>     Office: 02 9212 0899
>>
>>     Direct: 02 8005 0595
>>
>>      
>>
>>
>> --
>> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
>>
> 
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