Re: soundconverter: want to help, can't contact maintainer

2009-08-30 Thread William Grant
Hi Jason, -mentors, Hi all, Inspired by recent discussion on these lists, I decided to help out with some existing packages. One of them was soundconverter, a GTK app for converting between sound formats. It was a little behind on the upstream releases, so I updated the package and emailed

RFS: soundconverter [Was: soundconverter: want to help, can't contact maintainer]

2009-08-30 Thread Jason Heeris
Hi all, If anyone wants to sponsor an updated version of the package, it's ready on mentors.d.n: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/soundconverter - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - dget

Re: Re: soundconverter: want to help, can't contact maintainer

2009-08-30 Thread Jason Heeris
Hi Charles, one week if definitely short, especially in August :) Oh yes, I would have waited anyway, I just wanted to know what I might need to do in three weeks (or with certain other packages). It seems to be sorted now anyway. Nevertheless, thank you very much for caring for

Re: Re: soundconverter: want to help, can't contact maintainer

2009-08-30 Thread Felipe Sateler
Jason Heeris wrote: But all of this hard work only makes sense if the maintainance problem of soundconverter is solved in the long term. Maybe you can see if a packaging team, for instance http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia, would like to adopt it, with you as a maintainer if you would

Re: RFS: soundconverter [Was: soundconverter: want to help, can't contact maintainer]

2009-08-30 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 07:30:30PM +0800, Jason Heeris a écrit : Hi all, If anyone wants to sponsor an updated version of the package, it's ready on mentors.d.n: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/soundconverter - Source repository: deb-src

Re: soundconverter: want to help, can't contact maintainer

2009-08-29 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 11:13:04AM +0800, Jason Heeris a écrit : That was a week ago, and I haven't heard back, so my question is: what do I do now? (I realise a week isn't *that* long, and possibly doesn't qualify the word can't in the subject line, but I'd still like to know.) Dear Jaon,

soundconverter: want to help, can't contact maintainer

2009-08-28 Thread Jason Heeris
Hi all, Inspired by recent discussion on these lists, I decided to help out with some existing packages. One of them was soundconverter, a GTK app for converting between sound formats. It was a little behind on the upstream releases, so I updated the package and emailed the maintainer to offer my

Re: soundconverter: want to help, can't contact maintainer

2009-08-28 Thread Paul Wise
Best to consult the documentation: http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/beyond-pkging.html#mia-qa -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Re: soundconverter: want to help, can't contact maintainer

2009-08-28 Thread Jason Heeris
Thanks for the advice :) It's a useful page, but a little confusing. It seems to mix up the concept of maintainer and developer (I realise these weren't always different), and it doesn't mention where to find the mia-query tool (or what it means by the system is available on... ie. www? ftp? ssh?

Re: Re: soundconverter: want to help, can't contact maintainer

2009-08-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Jason Heerisjason.hee...@gmail.com wrote: It's a useful page, but a little confusing. It seems to mix up the concept of maintainer and developer (I realise these weren't always different), and it doesn't mention where to find the mia-query tool (or what it