Hi Perl folks, (and former uploaders of lintian in BCC since I know some people who might be MIA and do not want to expose their e-mail addresses)
as you might have read in my first "Bits from DPL"[1] I was pointed out to the fact that lintian is in an unfortunate state as Axel Beckert confirmed on the lintian maintainers list[2]. Yesterday I had a long and kind chat with Axel to become informed about the status in even more detail to be able to find out some potential ways to enhance the situation of our policy checking tool. In my attempt to contact all larger teams in Debian in general I'm using this reason to show up here. As you probably know lintian is written in Perl and while its not urgently necessary to understand Perl to help on all open bugs / MRs it might help a lot if you speak Perl fluently. I know Axel more than 20 years and confirm its great to work together with him. He is currently doing his very best to wade through open bugs and MRs but his time is limited. Please consider my mail as a proxied call for help. ;-) He would accept any DD as a team member immediately (hello xz backdoor). For non-DDs who want to help out and by doing so do some rewarding work for an important tool Axel would like to see some patches for open bugs or MRs in Salsa to enlarge trust. Apropos xz backdoor: I see the initial cause of the problem that the maintainer was working hard alone. So we want to make sure that our important tools are not maintained by a single person in the first place. (If you want to discuss this in general (again) please use debian-project list and change subject!) From my experience you can always find some low hanging fruits in a long list of open bugs. Just be bold and see whether you can start with theses. Any contribution is helpful, thought. To come back to my general contact to the Perl team: My personal impression of your team is pretty good. I frequently mention it as an example for a well written policy and good team metrics stats. Please do not hesitate to contact me in case I might have overlooked anything and you have the impression I could help you in any way. I'm looking forward to join your BoF on DebConf24 in Busan Andreas. [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2024/05/msg00000.html [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lint-maint/2024/04/msg00010.html -- https://fam-tille.de
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