On Tue, 7 Feb 2023 at 08:22, Nilesh Patra <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 7 February 2023 1:30:00 pm IST, M Hickford <[email protected]> wrote: > >On Mon, 6 Feb 2023 at 18:34, Nilesh Patra <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 08:00:00AM +0000, M Hickford wrote: > >> > Hi. Would anyone here be able to please upload my package? > >> > > > https://salsa.debian.org/go-team/packages/git-credential-oauth/-/tree/debian/sid > >> > >> I have uploaded your package - 0.4.2 release. I'm not at all sure if you'd > >> be willing to / would consider taking my feedback... but, anyway -- > >packages are > >> usually uploaded when there are some more changes than just a few lines > >> of minimal diffs. > >> Not each and every patch release _has_ to get an upload. And so please do > >> ping for uploads when you think there are some more changes than small > >> fixes. > >> But ofcourse, serious bugs (FTBFS, autopkgtest failures) and security bugs > >> are important things so nothing of the what above I said applies to them. > > > >Thanks again Nilesh. I particularly wanted to get the future-proofing > >customisation feature into bookworm, otherwise secret rotation could > >have bricked the app. > > I did take a look at the diff and found it sensible to make an upload. As always, thanks for your work! > > >Isn't this a catch 22? To become a Debian Maintainer I need to > >demonstrate an established "history of contributions" [1], but a potential > >advocate > >encourages me to make fewer contributions :-) > > There is not catch 22, and to be honest I do find that phrasing as borderline rude. I've two points to make
Sorry, I see how that came across. I apologise. > > 1. History is made over "time" doing 10 patch release uploads in 3 days (with minimal diffs) isn't going to mean anything much. > > 2. I'm absolutely not encouraging you to make fewer contributions, but instead to make more number of meaningful ones. > There are plenty of areas in debian that need help, and I'm very certain that your experience/expertise could be very valuable. > For instance like fixing release critical bugs in current packages, or helping with transitions, or helping with go toolchain (bugs in dh-make-golang) and so on. > So if you like to help, you can take a look in these areas, and help contribute. > There is plenty to do, and the bus factor isn't great. So my maintainer application is judged on contributions beyond the package(s) I want to maintain? I hoped to become maintainer for my simple leaf package before attempting anything more complex. Thanks for the suggestions, I'll take a look. Kind regards -M > > >Sincerely though, I understand every upload takes the valuable time of > >stretched sponsors. > > At this point in time, everyone including me is busy to get stuff into testing before soft freeze, and so the time for reviews is a bit less. I hope you understand. > > >[1] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMaintainer > > -- > Best, > Nilesh
