On Friday 02 May 2014 11:32:41 Maximiliano Curia wrote: > ¡Hola Paul! > > El 2014-05-02 a las 08:40 +0800, Paul Wise escribió: > > On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 2:19 AM, Maximiliano Curia wrote: > > > For quite a while now the KDE team has been severely understaffed. We > > > maintain a lot of packages, with many different kinds of bugs, but we > > > don't have enough people to do all the work that needs to be done. We > > > have tools that help us automate the update to new upstream releases, > > > but that's just the tip of the iceberg of our work and so we are > > > writing to invite more people to get involved in the team and help us > > > get KDE software in Debian into better shape.> > > Have you invited the Kubuntu team to join you? I'll send a mail to the > > other derivatives I can find that use KDE. > > We've invited the Kubuntu team to merge their efforts with ours and use the > same packaging vcs. The answer was positive, although the migration is a bit > too far in the future. They sort of agree that they could migrate from > launchpad bzr to git.debian.org, but as they are a larger group they > separate junior and senior developers, requiring a review for each junior > commit, for which they have a workflow and systems in place that won't be > directly usable in git.debian.org. so the idea is to keep in sync most of > our work, and see if we can figure out a way to merge it. > > Which translates to some overhead and a larger TODO list than an immediate > help, but sure, once certain threshold in time invested is reached, both > Debian and Ubuntu could benefit from it. > > Happy hacking, Sounds like a job for Gerrit. Currently not fully packages for Debian but I understand there is work being done one it. There is a github project at https://github.com/dnaeon/gerrit-debian which builds debs.
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