Hi, Am Montag, den 05.12.2011, 19:40 +0000 schrieb Bryan Hunt: > On Mon, 05 Dec 2011 18:00:36 +0100, Joachim Breitner <[email protected]> > wrote: > > it seems that the blog advertising, as Bryan prognosed, helped to raise > > some interest. Of course I can apply Bryan’s patch if it helps him. > > Otherwise, I’m a bit reluctant to re-start development and, e.g., review > > and apply Petter’s patch, mostly because I’m not interested enough in > > the issue of init scripts at the moment to maintain it properly, and > > because maintaining it makes only sense if there is a chance of further > > adoption. > > > > If one of you thinks that metainit should be continued to be developed, > > maybe one of you can step up at the maintainer? Of if you also don’t > > find the time, maybe you find someone how does :-) > > I would be happy to do so, and integrate Petter's patch.
Great! > I'm familiar > with Git/Mercurial/SVN so I can figure out how to use Darc's. if you feel more comfortable with git, I would not mind converting the repo to git first; I’m not attached to the choice of Darcs. It might also make contributions by other more likely. > However, I am not hugely familiar with the Debian ecosystem, and will > possibly be away for quite a lot of December. Would you be able to > advise me on getting setup. Where do you sign up as a developer? If all you care about for now is metainit, you do not even have to become a Debian Maintainer; you can hack on metainit and prepare the packages, and then have a sponsor (e.g. me) upload the package. Only when you get annoyed by this indirection you should consider applying for Debian Maintainer or Debian Developer status. Anyway, the most important work with this project, if you want to make it useful, is to advertise it, make more packages use it (by suggesting it to the maintainers of suitable packages, maybe with a patch), and maybe also add some extra value, e.g. systemd integration. For advertising it might be useful if your blog (if you have one) gets added to planet.debian.org. All this does not need special priviliges, and is how most work gets done in Debian – by just doing it :-) Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer [email protected] | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: [email protected] | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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