On Friday April 20 2007 5:29:19 pm Jordan Mantha wrote: > <sorry if this breaks threading, I wasn't subscribed> > > tephens <brent_stephens <at> comcast.net> writes: > > Is anyone developing texlive? It seems that no one really works on it; > > occasionally one of the devs sticks the debian package in the ubuntu > > repos. > > I would really like to see it better maintained, and I am willing to work > > on > > it, but I don't really know where/how to begin. If anyone has any useful > > suggestions, I'll listen. > > Interesting you asked, I've been thinking we need a TeX team in Ubuntu. So > far we've done a fairly poor job of keeping up with Debian with these > packages. Without pitti and doko's work it would be much worse. A couple > of the Debian TeX maintainers Norbert and Frank have been gracious enough > to do a fair amount of triaging of TeX bugs in Launchpad. > > Here's my plan of attack. I've just created a Launchpad team (ubuntu-tex) > [0]. There are a few MOTUs that are also interested. I think the goal > should be to roughly be the Ubuntu equivalent of the debian-tex-maint group > in Debian [1]. The work roughly involves three areas: > > 1. Triaging and forwarding TeX bugs to Debian. I've gone through all of the > textex and texlive bugs on launchpad and was able to close/reject roughly > 1/3 of them. We need to stay on top of them so people don't have to wait 6 > months to get a reply. > > 2. Testing and QA, we need to make sure that the TeX packages we end up > with are as good as we can get. This might mean filing Freeze exceptions to > get important bugfix releases or backporting fixes to the existing Ubuntu > versions. > > 3. Transitions. I think gutsy will mostly likely see a tetex -> texlive > 2007 transition although I haven't seen any specs are talk about that. > Maybe a good topic of discussion? > > Anyway,anybody who wants to help with the maintenance of TeX in Ubuntu can > join ubuntu-tex and all skill levels are welcome. We need testers, bug > triagers, and packagers. I've created a wiki page for the team [2] where we > can start working up things to do. > > -Jordan Mantha > > [0] https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tex > [1] > http://qa.debian.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuTeX
I'm really glad your getting this together! I just joined up. As I stated in my original post, I'm not much of a developer (although I know a smattering of programming), but I will do whatever I can to help. -bns -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
