Hi,
Welcome on pkg-gnome, Alan!
Thanks ;-)
You can either help randomly on pkg-gnome packages by triaging/forwarding/diagnosing bugs, testing patches (perhaps from upstream), committing fixes/patches/changes in the SVN. If unsure about anything, please ask. Or you can adopt some particular packages and act as principal maintainer. The packages up for adoption are basically those with pkg-gnome in the Maintainer field or where the maintainer did not do any of the uploads in the last 6 months.
As a starting point, I suggets gtk2-engines-ubuntulooks package, it's a nice and fast GTK engine based on ClearLooks. It also has an ITP (#390552) already and I've an almost ready to use package.
I'm a bit surprized to discover such a pool of GNOME packages in another alioth project; out of curiosity, what changes do you need to do in these packages and how do you keep in sync?
You know, it's a bit hard and time-consuming work. These pool is for Parsix GNU/Linux that uses Debian testing branch as base. Latest GNOME packages are rarely available in testing branch, so we get packages from experimental and maintain in our pool, adding debian and our oun patches. We have a small watch system: http://watch.parsix.org
The SVN permissions will need a little time to propagate. You can hang on #gnome-debian on GIMPNet for coordination.
OK. Cheers, Alan
