I would like to help in some capacity. Would working in a chrooted environment or would one need a fully fledged os?
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Clint Byrum <spam...@debian.org> wrote: > Greetings earthlings, > > As some of you may know, I've been doing the bulk of the package > maintenance on the mysql package for a while now. It started as part of > my day job with Canonical, but since leaving Canonical it has been more > a labor of love for Debian. > > I have love for other things too, such as my children, and seeing the > sun shine every once in a while. Thus, I have found almost no time for > packaging MySQL for Debian. > > I am asking you, the Debian developers, to step up and help. I am > basically unable to contribute more than an hour a month now. There is a > new round of secret CVE bugs to fix, and some old bugs that need to be > handled. I think my October hour is about to be available, so I might > be able to address those, but after that, if I don't get any more help, > I'm done. > > What can you do to help? > > - Raise your hand and say you'll help > - Perhaps help us do this right (I suspect I should have an RFH bug) > - Join #debian-mysql on OFTC > - Join the alioth team and request svn access > - Triage bugs (src:mysql-5.5 and for oldstable src:mysql-5.1) > - Help package the latest patch releases from Oracle > - Help with MariaDB (James Page and Otto, thanks for doing this btw!) > - Help us migrate to git > > Now, all of that said, please do not just pick up the package and run > off and do a bunch of things without first letting us know you're doing > it. There are people quietly working on some long term interesting > things and you may be duplicating or diverging heavily from their work. > > _______________________________________________ > pkg-mysql-maint mailing list > pkg-mysql-ma...@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-mysql-maint > -- Jonathan Aquilina