Hi, Am Dienstag, den 06.12.2011, 10:45 +0000 schrieb Bryan Hunt: > > 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. > > Yes, I'm interested in doing this, I have attempted this before (internally, > unsuccessfully), when trying to package Sphinx Search Server 2 for use > on one of our servers. The skills would be usefull, and serve all both > our own needs and that of the larger project. > > > 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 :-) > > In the near term: > > I see it as a really easy way for administrators to start programs at > boot without having to get involved in copying and pasting of existing > init.d scripts. > > With a proliferation of init systems (sysv,systemd,upstart), it would > be cool if a developer did not have to re-learn the peculiar syntax > every time a distro decides to re-invent the wheel. > > In the mid to long term, my goal would be to serve the needs of other > package maintainers. If it is simple to use it will be flexible enough > to be used by them too.
sounds great. I’ll leave it to you from here on. If you have a new metainit package that I should sponsor, you are welcome to put yourself in the Maintainer field. BTW, http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/initscripts-ng-devel might be a suitable list for public discussion around these issue. At least it was that 4 years ago. 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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