On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:08:20 +0200 a...@softwarelibre.nl (avr) wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 10:12:20AM -0400, Delyan Raychev wrote: > > > Partially triggered by own guilt, but primarily by the desire to > > grow the gNewSense project I've been contemplating on the scarce > > developer manpower here at the gNewSense project. > > [...] > > > Any comments, questions, suggestions? > > It might be worthwhile to see if it is possible to involve the > the upstream distribution to a larger degree.
++ > One option is that gNewSense users who have access to > both a gNewSense computer and a Debian computer, match our bugs to > Debian's and post and see them through on Debian's bugtracking > system, to help Debian and in turn help Debian help gNewSense. It has a direct benefit to us too: we know that bug wasn't caused by us. > Another (more laborious) one is that an infrastructure is set up > where any willing dd can become a gnewsense developer. Even though work in progress... > there are differences between the projects, I think there are very > few dds who bear any ill will against gnewsense, and at least some, > if given the opportunity and it is made easy enough for them, would > not mind making the effort of checking if their package is ready for > gnewsense on top of their normal work for debian. Those dds are probably a very very small number. There are lots of debian derivatives, and maintaining an environment for each distribution and then testing with it is a fairly manual process. > Debian developers are normally not waiting for *more* work, such as > taking care of any derivative distributions. But since most of the > derivatives usually take their fork in a less free direction, some > might make an exception for gnewsense, if it is made easy enough for > them and does not add substantially to their burden. Not sure I understand the logic there. Just because gNS tries to be freer, DDs will be more likely to work on it? > These are just suggestions I can come up with right now, but > if there are ways that would increase gnewsense's visibility within > the debian project that would not be detrimental or overly burdensome > to them, I think these would warrant consideration. It might give > gnewsense the exposure it needs to attract developers who should be > at least somewhat informed about gnewsense's goals. Its been suggested to me we try and get ourselves added below ubuntu on the debian pts [1]. If someone is interested in doing the python to make that happen, let me know ... [1] eg http://packages.qa.debian.org/f/freeciv.html , right hand side. kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group
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