On Sat, Jul 30, 2016 at 12:34:47PM +0200, David Rabel wrote: > Hi there,
Hello! > I'm new to Debian as a maintainer, that means I have not packaged > anything yet, but want to start it now. > By looking through WNPP I found an RFP for a vim addon: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=825665 Welcome to Debian! Thanks for contributing to the Vim ecosystem. > It seems to me to be a good package to start packaging, because it is > probably very easy. I already found this: > https://pkg-vim.alioth.debian.org/vim-policy.txt and read the Debian New > Maintainers Guide. So with this information I'm going to package it. :-) I'm intending to update vim-policy once I'm able to get vim-addon-manager adapted to leverage Vim's new "package" functionality. > My question is: Are Addon-Packages also coordinated on this mailing > list? Or generally packaged by the pkg-vim-maintainers team? Not necessarily. It's up to the maintainer. For example, Andrea Capriotti has packaged quite a few addons independent of the team. > Can I just > package it and look for a sponsors on mentors mailing list? Or do i ask > for sponsoring here? Again, that's up to you. :) However, I don't have a lot of extra time to offer, so I can't guarantee respone times to sponsorship requests. Also, it's probably better to work with mentors if you're interested in eventually becoming a DM or DD. On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 03:48:30PM +0200, David Rabel wrote: > so I built a package for vim-lastplace addon. ( > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=825665 ) > > But now I am not sure if it is appreciated to have an extra package for > such a small addon. For me of course it would be nice to have a small > easy package to start as maintainer, but the user it would probably be > better to include it into vim-scripts. I don't know. What do you think? Individual packages are fine. Given the current state of vim-scripts, that's probably better. I've been delaying updating vim-scripts because of various problems in vim-addon-manager that I know will be encountered if those scripts are updated. I need to get vim-addon-manager fixed first. Cheers, -- James GPG Key: 4096R/91BF BF4D 6956 BD5D F7B7 2D23 DFE6 91AE 331B A3DB
