Hello Colin,
Thanks. Will start looking in to the bugs. Started looking
at the grub webpage. Will try out a few bugs fixes.
http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/grub.html
A wiki would be really handy on how to setup.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_GRUB
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Regards
Martin Naughton
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 7:10 AM, Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 11:53:54AM +0000, Martin Naughton wrote:
> > Do you still need help. Me and another guy are interested
> > in helping. Can you indicate if you still need help. We are not DD yet
> but
> > we are learning. We can help with the testing of grub and fix bugs while
> > you can develop the application. If not help is needed can the ticket be
> > closed?
>
> GRUB package maintenance in Debian still certainly needs help; while
> we've generally managed to keep one primary maintainer (I came along
> well after this RFH was initially filed, and have been the most active
> on the team for the last couple of years), Debian really ought to be
> able to manage a team with a higher bus factor for its principal boot
> loader. We suffered from that this summer when I had some temporary
> motivation problems; if another developer had been sufficiently active
> and able to step in it's possible that we'd be shipping wheezy with GRUB
> 2.00 rather than 1.99.
>
> You can certainly help out with testing and fixing individual bugs
> without having to ask in advance (as long as you don't actually close
> bugs without asking) - just mail the BTS as appropriate. I do think we
> need more DDs involved, though.
>
> Jonathan is right that we need some kind of wiki documentation here.
> I'll see if I can carve out some time soon to write up a skeleton of
> such a thing ...
>
> --
> Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]
>
