Howdy mentors,
I'm attempting to start my long slide into package maintainership :-)
There is a wealth of material available on how to be a Debian package
maintainer. I'm trying to find my way through it slowly. Here's what
I've done:
- Pick an itch (package) to scratch: lojban-common (bug #30
Hi Ben,
Ben Finney wrote:
Howdy mentors,
I'm attempting to start my long slide into package maintainership :-)
Welcome :-) I also started this journey some weeks ago, maybe some
hints can help you:
- In addition to the documents below, reading the
New Maintainers Guide: http://www.debian.org/doc/
On 09-May-2005, Andreas Fester wrote:
> Hi Ben,
[Andreas and others: please respect my Mail-Followup-To header field
when posting a followup to the list.]
> - In addition to the documents below, reading the
> New Maintainers Guide: http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/
> is a must
Forgot th
On 09-May-2005, Ben Finney wrote:
> On 09-May-2005, Andreas Fester wrote:
> > - You should subscribe to debian-devel; this is where development
> > and packaging issues are discussed
>
> At what point is this necessary? I usually read debian-devel by proxy
> (DWN); it's *way* too high-traffic fo
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 02:33:27PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> Howdy mentors,
>
> I'm attempting to start my long slide into package maintainership :-)
>
> There is a wealth of material available on how to be a Debian package
> maintainer. I'm trying to find my way through it slowly. Here's what
>
* Ben Finney [Mon, 09 May 2005 14:33:27 +1000]:
> What else should I be doing before I embark on getting a package
> ready? Does an overall checklist like the above already exist, that I
> should be following?
IME, reading bits from d-devel-changes [1] will teach you things you
won't learn el
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 01:18:23PM +0200, Adeodato Sim??? wrote..
> [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-changes
>
> As the traffic is obviously too high, I've always had a procmail
> rule in place that discards uploads of non-installed packages
> (unless explicitly monitored
* Kevin Coyner [Mon, 09 May 2005 12:07:40 -0400]:
> On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 01:18:23PM +0200, Adeodato Sim??? wrote..
> > [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-changes
> > As the traffic is obviously too high, I've always had a procmail
> > rule in place that discards uploads of n
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