Re: Looking for a package to adopt

2000-01-14 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 09:55:36PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > I lost the response I got on the last one. I think the answer was that > someone just needs to port the stuff on the old page to the new page. > (Someone correct me if that's wrong.) At that point we can redirect from > the old to t

Re: Looking for a package to adopt

2000-01-13 Thread Thierry Laronde
On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 02:59:08PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > scour freshmeat or the net for something not in Debian > find something in Debian that has not been updated lately and update it > read the BTS, fix a bug or three on something you use or know about > mail a developer of a pa

Re: Looking for a package to adopt

2000-01-13 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 10:27:44PM +, Julian Gilbey wrote: > What?! Two *different* wnpp pages? Is there any chance of merging > them? I lost the response I got on the last one. I think the answer was that someone just needs to port the stuff on the old page to the new page. (Someone correct

Re: Looking for a package to adopt

2000-01-13 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 02:59:08PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > you can do a few things: > > scour freshmeat or the net for something not in Debian > find something in Debian that has not been updated lately and update it > read the BTS, fix a bug or three on something you use or know about

Re: Looking for a package to adopt

2000-01-12 Thread Thierry Laronde
On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 04:26:30PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > There's also http://qa.debian.org/wnpp.html, which may have entries not > on the other page. Thanks ! [note]: there is a problem when one is trying to access to the informations about xmailtool via wnpp.html. -- Thierry LARONDE [E

RE: Looking for a package to adopt

2000-01-12 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 12-Jan-2000 Thierry Laronde wrote: > Hello, > > I'm not a developer yet, but I'm looking for a package to adopt in order to > learn, with an actual example, how the work has to be done. > > I absolutely don't care about the package by itself, I'd

Re: Looking for a package to adopt

2000-01-12 Thread Thierry Laronde
On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 08:26:01PM +, Julian Gilbey wrote: > Hello there! Hello, > Have a look at the wnpp pages: > http://www.debian.org/doc/prospective-packages.html > It's a bit out of date, but there may be something there that's > tractable. Check out the BTS (bug tracking system), down

Re: Looking for a package to adopt

2000-01-12 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 04:26:30PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > > Have a look at the wnpp pages: > > http://www.debian.org/doc/prospective-packages.html > > It's a bit out of date, but there may be something there that's > > tractable. Check out the BTS (bug tracking system), download the > > pac

Re: Looking for a package to adopt

2000-01-12 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 08:26:01PM +, Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 04:31:50PM +0100, Thierry Laronde wrote: > > I'm not a developer yet, but I'm looking for a package to adopt in order to > > learn, with an actual example, how the work has to be done

Re: Looking for a package to adopt

2000-01-12 Thread Julian Gilbey
Hello there! [Please wrap your lines at 72 chars!] On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 04:31:50PM +0100, Thierry Laronde wrote: > Hello, > > I'm not a developer yet, but I'm looking for a package to adopt in order to > learn, with an actual example, how the work has to be done. H

Looking for a package to adopt

2000-01-12 Thread Thierry Laronde
Hello, I'm not a developer yet, but I'm looking for a package to adopt in order to learn, with an actual example, how the work has to be done. I absolutely don't care about the package by itself, I'd just like to adopt a package not too difficult --- I'm an absolute begi