On Mon, 2 Jan 2006 20:34:31 +0100, Adrian von Bidder wrote > On Monday 02 January 2006 16.21, Alejandro Bonilla wrote: > [...] > > I could support or maintain some packages if I could be teached once, and > > if the mentoring process to get ownership of one package wouldn't be a > > pain. I once wanted to make a package for the ieee80211 stack or another > > small package, but NO. I had to know someone, that the someone had a > > developer friend that would actually trust me, to ever be able to try > > posting something. > > Huh? That's just not true. > > You can make a package all on your own, no problem at all. Look at > <http://www.us.debian.org/devel/>, most relevant documentation is > linked from there. Ask anybody on pretty much any IRC channel or > mailing list about Debian, and somebody will point you probably to > the debian-mentors mailing list. In my experience, if you have > actual packaging problems you will get answers. (your question about > HDAPS got you two offers of help - I didn't research if I found any > later results, but to me that looked not too bad.)
The HDAPS guys did a great and fast Job and they packaged things up and it all works so far. They were of great help. I most have not digged in enough and fact is that I got to a point that it was easier to throw the ball to someone for them to package stuff up. ;-) > > Packaging is hard work, and you'll have to learn a lot, but you can > do everything you need except actually upload the package. Only in > the end will you need a DD to do the upload. True, OK. I will look at how to package and if I find something interesting then I will look for a DD. Thanks, .Alejandro > > cheers > -- vbi -- Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]