-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Brook Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday 14 October 2003 07:18 am, Buchan Milne wrote: > >>Uploading to incoming doesn't guarantee anyone is going to look at it, >>since only Mandrakesoft employees can look there, and AFAIK only Lenny >>does. > > > I know I've been at it for a while now I did email lenny. A few days ago.
Well, Lenny doesn't scale as well as we would like him to ;-). > I snipped out the rest above maybe I was not clear they now have new > maintainers but I did the original ones that made it into mandrake about 2 > years ago and ahve contributed patches and updates along the way on top of > what the "maintainers" have done. Thats my point no mention of it anywere. Your changes should be listed in the changelog, but if your uploads to incoming haven't been committed, they wouldn't have been there in the first place. I don't know anyone who intentionally removes changelogs ... > > >>Why? >> >>I think you are taking the wrong approach. Rather: >> >>1)Bug lenny for an account on klama (so you can upload directly to >>contrib yourself) > > > No this may be a solution i had not thought about. How does this work? Just > upload the srpms and let klama build them? > Well, you would build them on klama yourself (by ssh). > >>2)In the meantime, make your spec files available, for packages that are >>already in contrib, mail the maintainer (assuming the maintainer has >>upload rights to contrib). >>3)Don't rely on something in /incoming ever being uploaded. >> >>I don't think I have had anything I have uploaded to incoming ever see >>the changelog list. > > well for now I have an account at ibiblio and I'm stuffing things there for > others. When and if it makes it into mandrake thats good and fine but at > least others will be able to get them. The idea isn't to splinter efforts ... so I would advise against people making a new urpmi source for every package that is in contrib ... Someone will put it in contrib if you make the spec file available and let the list know. > One more thing I'm working on some nice docs for working with some of the > packages I'm dealing with i was thinking about giving them to the club for > use there. Yes? No? Maybe? does this sound good? I don't know if Club is a good place for documentation. Having used a few different methods (straight html for mandrakeuser.org, php/html for mandrakesecure.net, documentation section of MandrakeClub forums and the Mandrake community wiki at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca), I think a Wiki is the best current solution (although that doesn't say much ...), mostly from the point of view of collaborative editing. Regards, Buchan - -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x202 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/jBfrrJK6UGDSBKcRAiwgAJ4vcTL0+ZoBH3weDf6TeoGiSKCOUwCeO2jn MMhPfBAnTsFOzeOHWWlLSZ8= =V+j1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
