2010/1/11 Reinhard Tartler <siret...@tauware.de>: > On Mo, Jan 11, 2010 at 19:41:39 (CET), Harry Rickards wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> I'm the Debian and Ubuntu package maintainer for LiVES (source package >> name: lives), a very popular video editing suite, and am thinking >> about joining the pkg-multimedia-maintainers team (if you'll have >> me!). > > I've just added you to the alioth team, you should now have write access > to our packaging branches. Welcome to the team!
Thanks! >> At the moment I don't use git for a VCS, but I'm planning to start >> using it for the next version. At >> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/DevelopPackaging it says quilt >> needs to be used for patch management, however at the moment I >> currently use dpatch. Is this okay, or will I need to change to quilt? > > On our last meeting we agreed that since we are rather short on > uploaders, we require every package to have a "primary uploader" and > that he may agree to use another packaging system or even some other > packaging helper than debhelper. However, most current uploaders prefer > debhelper and quilt, so that's why that's still recommended in our wiki > pages. > > I've taken a brief look at lives, and while I haven't used it yet, it > indeed looks very promising. I'll consider putting me in the Uploaders > field. Ok. Am I right in thinking I should put myself in the Uploaders field? (Sorry for the probably obvious question, I've never packaged in a team before) >> If my membership is accepted, I'll change the maintainer field to >> Debian Multimedia Maintainers >> <pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>. The only patch >> in LiVES at the moment does not currently have a DEP-3 compliant >> header, but I'll fix that for the next version. > > excellent! > >> I've joined both the pkg-multimedia-maintainers and >> pkg-multimedia-commits mailing lists, and are pretty familiar with >> managing bugs in Debian (I haven't done that much of it, but for some >> examples look at the closed bugs for lives). I also agree to review >> other's work. I have an alioth account - username is hrickards-guest. > > excellent as well! > > -- > Gruesse/greetings, > Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4 -- Harry Rickards - ha...@linux.com Debian Lenny server | Debian Sid desktop | UNR Karmic netbook A good programmer is someone who looks both ways before crossing a one-way street. - Doug Linder Binary is as easy as 01, 10, 11. _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
