If anyone is interested, I'd like to offer my perspective here as
someone who was, and still is, really quite enthusiastic about helping
Debian, but hasn't really found a way to do so yet.
Sorry, but it turned into a bit of an essay when I wasn't looking.
Let me just disclaim, too: I'm trying to
Joss wrote:
>Le mercredi 19 août 2009 à 08:55 -0300, Rogério Brito a écrit :
>> |
>> | Please, if an existing package has not been updated for some time, just
>> | publicize this fact more conspicuously. Let us engage the existing (and
>> | prospective) maintainers in taking care of aging, bu
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:15:00 -0700, Carl Worth wrote:
> > The interesting question is how to encourage people to join teams;
> > some thoughts from DebConf can be found here:
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2009/07/msg00083.html
> > (especially point 3)
> One thought captured in those notes
Excerpts from gregor herrmann's message of Thu Aug 20 02:25:09 -0700 2009:
> There's a central place for teams in Debian:
> http://wiki.debian.org/Teams
That's an excellent resource, yes.
> The interesting question is how to encourage people to join teams;
> some thoughts from DebConf can be fou
Josselin Mouette writes:
> Le jeudi 20 août 2009 à 19:07 +1000, Ben Finney a écrit :
> > Perhaps a good way to point it out on an ongoing basis would be a
> > central clearing house for “specific teams that a newcomer should
> > consider joining”. Is there such a list (and where is it maintained
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:07:42 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
[Any reason why this thread happens on both -devel and -mentors?]
> Josselin Mouette writes:
> > It is never pointed out enough that the core packaging teams are
> > seriously understaffed. Please, before uploading your pet package to
> > the
Le jeudi 20 août 2009 à 19:07 +1000, Ben Finney a écrit :
> Perhaps a good way to point it out on an ongoing basis would be a
> central clearing house for “specific teams that a newcomer should
> consider joining”. Is there such a list (and where is it maintained)?
> Would such a list even make se
Josselin Mouette writes:
> It is never pointed out enough that the core packaging teams are
> seriously understaffed. Please, before uploading your pet package to
> the archive, consider joining one of the packaging teams looking for
> more maintainers: eglibc, Mozilla, KDE, GNOME, Xfce, Utopia,
Josselin Mouette wrote:
It is never pointed out enough that the core packaging teams are
seriously understaffed. Please, before uploading your pet package to the
archive, consider joining one of the packaging teams looking for more
maintainers: eglibc, Mozilla, KDE, GNOME, Xfce, Utopia, Apache, K
Josselin Mouette writes:
> It is never pointed out enough that the core packaging teams are
> seriously understaffed. Please, before uploading your pet package to
> the archive, consider joining one of the packaging teams looking for
> more maintainers: eglibc, Mozilla, KDE, GNOME, Xfce, Utopia,
Le mercredi 19 août 2009 à 08:55 -0300, Rogério Brito a écrit :
> | It is with sadness that I see many NEW packages uploaded to the Debian
> | repository and little thought about some packages that are already in
> | the distribution, but that are bit-rotting.
> |
> | Please, if an existing packa
Leinier Cruz Salfran schrieb:
El mié, 19-08-2009 a las 20:07 +0200, Patrick Matthäi escribió:
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I want to take this opportunity to add that the bugs need to be
addressed, especially the wish list. There are people
El mié, 19-08-2009 a las 20:07 +0200, Patrick Matthäi escribió:
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> Leinier Cruz Salfran schrieb:
> > Hello
> >
> > I want to take this opportunity to add that the bugs need to be
> > addressed, especially the wish list. There are people who send
[Patrick Matthäi]
>> thing is the system of new packages (debian-mentors,
>> mentors.debian.net) .. I think that there could be a team dedicated to
>> addressing this important task, same as the team dedicated to the
>> kernel, the core packages, translation, among other important packages.
>
> I
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>
> I want to take this opportunity to add that the bugs need to be
> addressed, especially the wish list. There are people who send bugs to
> request to be added or taken into consideration certain properties and
Hello
I want to take this opportunity to add that the bugs need to be
addressed, especially the wish list. There are people who send bugs to
request to be added or taken into consideration certain properties and
functionality in the packages and maintainers are ignoring. Another
thing is the syste
Dear all,
Motivated by some unfortunate trends seen in debian-mentors, I would
like to raise (again) the question of wheter we are doing the right
thing or not.
Here is my plea:
,
| Attn Debian/Ubuntu/whatever developers and maintainers:
|
| It is with sadness that I see many NEW packages u
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