Hello everybody. Please excuse me such wide crossposting, but the goal of this email is in fact to gather people interested in Debian packages of Firebird but spread out in different places - into one place. I am sending you this email, because you might be interested in Debian packages of Firebird. There is NO need to be a Debian Developer for that.
=== CURRENT STATE === I am the original packager of Firebird (1.0.x) packages in Debian. I do not maintain them anymore - they are currently orphaned. Still, I believe that Firebird is simply too good piece of Free Software not to have good Debian packages! Over last 6 months I tried to help *a few* people to take over these packages (and package 1.5 version) but none of them had enough time to accomplish the task alone (though one is near). Lately, in Debian, we observe that so called "group maintenance" of some bigger packages gives much better resulting qualiyt of packages, better reaction time, is less vulnerable to "I am very busy these days" notorious problem of maintainer and generally - works better. I can not maintain Firebird packages. But I can help the persons willing to put some effort in these packages. === A PLACE TO WORK TOGETHER === I have created a "pkg-firebird" project on alioth.debian.org (an equivalent of SourceForge but for Debian). Current available facilities include: 1. Mailing list. http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-firebird-general 2. Web page (very initial yet). http://firebird.debian.net 3. Other resources that might be handy later, like CVS/Subversion repository and others. === HOW YOU CAN HELP === 1. If you think you might be interested in Debian packages for Debian please JOIN THE MAILING LIST. 2. If you think you might be able to help people who want to work on packaging Firebird for Debian please JOIN THE MAILING LIST. 3. If you have worked or you want to work on Debian packages of Firebird - I suggest (after doing 1) you send an email with: a) some informations introducing you to the rest of the group, b) information about the current state of your work, c) problems you encounter and where you could use some help, d) your further plans. === FURTHER INFORMATIONS === Please do NOT reply to all the receivers of this email. Instead send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am hoping for emails from the persons who worked on Firebird Debian packages in the last months to appear on this mailing list. Later I will also explain some more details and we will try together to anwer the questions that will arise. Thank you for your attention. Grzegorz B. Prokopski PS: This is the second time I am sending out this email. The original was highly cross-posted and I was not able to verify that it has been received by *anybody*. I suspect it was caught as spam by spam filters. :-/ I am sorry if you got it twice. -- Grzegorz B. Prokopski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org SableVM - LGPLed JVM http://www.sablevm.org Why SableVM ?!? http://devel.sablevm.org/wiki/WhySableVM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]