Re: New contributor experience

On 6/13/25 11:28 AM, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: https://www.debian.org/devel/join/ already says: "As a prospective developer, you should also subscribe to debian- mentors. Here you can ask questions about packaging and infrastructure projects as well as othe

Re: New contributor experience

https://www.debian.org/devel/join/ already says: "As a prospective developer, you should also subscribe to debian-mentors. Here you can ask questions about packaging and infrastructure projects as well as other developer-related issues. Please note that this list is meant for new contributors, not

Re: Implementing feature requests for a package when a maintainer doesn't respond

On Thu, 12 Jun 2025 14:31:02 -0500, Aaron Rainbolt wrote: >Some time ago, I did a lot of work on getting a U-Boot + grub-efi-arm64 >boot flow to work on the Raspberry Pi 4 with Debian. I was able to get >a proof-of-concept implementation to work correctly, and was interested >in upstreaming my wor

Re: Project enquiry

No spam, please? Thanks... Em qui., 12 de jun. de 2025, 22:00, Kroll John escreveu: > Hi > > > We have just completed our plans. > Would you mind, we send through for a quote > at your earliest convenience. look forward > to your response. > > > Regards > > >

Work-needing packages report for Jun 13, 2025

The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 1178 (new: 0) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 129 (new: 0) Total number of packages reques

Re: Implementing feature requests for a package when a maintainer doesn't respond

On Thu, 12 Jun 2025 14:42:33 -0700 Soren Stoutner wrote: > On Thursday, June 12, 2025 1:36:50 PM Mountain Standard Time Andrey > Rakhmatullin wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 12, 2025 at 02:31:02PM -0500, Aaron Rainbolt wrote: > > >However, since I haven't > > >gotten any response (no explicit "this wou

Re: Implementing feature requests for a package when a maintainer doesn't respond

On Thursday, June 12, 2025 1:36:50 PM Mountain Standard Time Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2025 at 02:31:02PM -0500, Aaron Rainbolt wrote: > >However, since I haven't > >gotten any response (no explicit "this would be good, send a patch and > >let's see what you have", no criticism

Re: Implementing feature requests for a package when a maintainer doesn't respond

On Thu, Jun 12, 2025 at 02:31:02PM -0500, Aaron Rainbolt wrote: However, since I haven't gotten any response (no explicit "this would be good, send a patch and let's see what you have", no criticism or discussion, etc.), I don't know how to proceed. I don't want to submit a patch and have it igno

Implementing feature requests for a package when a maintainer doesn't respond

Some time ago, I did a lot of work on getting a U-Boot + grub-efi-arm64 boot flow to work on the Raspberry Pi 4 with Debian. I was able to get a proof-of-concept implementation to work correctly, and was interested in upstreaming my work to Debian if it was welcome. To that end, I attempted to reac

Re: New contributor experience

Am 11. Juni 2025 21:31:53 MESZ schrieb "Otto Kekäläinen" : > >> >> I have started a new wiki page for this purpose >> >> https://wiki.debian.org/Newcomers > >All teams can and should welcome and mentor newcomers that sounds nice. however, I'm afraid that in practice the "can [...] mentor newcomer

Re: Bug#1107670: ITP: condense-json -- Python function for condensing JSON using replacement strings

On 2025-06-12 10:50:38, Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > On Wed, 2025-06-11 at 13:43:51 -0400, Antoine Beaupre wrote: >> Package: wnpp >> Severity: wishlist >> Owner: Antoine Beaupre >> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-pyt...@lists.debian.org > >> * Package name: condense-json

Re: Project-wide LLM budget for helping people (was: Re: Complete and unified documentation for new maintainers

Hi Lucas, Thank you for bringing up the idea of Debian applying for the OpenAI Open Source Fund. I appreciate you taking the initiative to explore potential funding opportunities that could benefit DDs who might decide freely to profit from it or not. Since you've asked for DPL approval, I hereby

Re: Bug#1107670: ITP: condense-json -- Python function for condensing JSON using replacement strings

Hi! On Wed, 2025-06-11 at 13:43:51 -0400, Antoine Beaupre wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Antoine Beaupre > X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-pyt...@lists.debian.org > * Package name: condense-json > Version : 0.1.3 > Upstream Contact: Simon

Re: Project-wide LLM budget for helping people

Hi, On 6/12/25 16:42, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: My experience is a bit different -- I've found it useful to treat the LLM as an inexperienced coworker: - decide on what I would like to do - ask the LLM to do it - review carefully - refine what the LLM proposes either by asking with more details, or

Re: Project-wide LLM budget for helping people (was: Re: Complete and unified documentation for new maintainers

> > All of the above are closed-source solutions. > > Not Codex CLI Indeed, I guess I need to try it out now to evaluate it. > > I have been playing > > around with the fully open https://aider.chat/ for well over a year > > and I would recommend it instead. I hope to some day write a blog post >

Re: Project-wide LLM budget for helping people (was: Re: Complete and unified documentation for new maintainers

On 11/06/25 at 22:10 +0300, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > Hi! > > > > > OpenAI has an Open Source fund. Maybe Debian should apply[1] for a grant > > > > so that Debian contributors could get hands-on experience on how this > > > > could help their Debian activities? > > > > > > or maybe Debian should n