Hi Ben,
Ben Finney wrote:
Howdy mentors,
I'm attempting to start my long slide into package maintainership :-)
Welcome :-) I also started this journey some weeks ago, maybe some hints can help you:
- In addition to the documents below, reading the New Maintainers Guide: http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ is a must
- You should subscribe to debian-devel; this is where development and packaging issues are discussed
- The next step in becoming the maintainer for the package is probably to issue an ITA (Intent to Adopt) request.
- You can of course already start with creating the debian package, put it on a public URL and give that URL in your ITA so that others can review it (listening on debian-devel for a while should give you an idea how the process works)
- From my own experience: Use a chroot environment like pbuilder to check if all build dependencies are met before you provide your package for review :-)
HTH,
Andreas
- Pick an itch (package) to scratch: lojban-common (bug #302297) - Read the Developer's Reference (still going) - Read the Debian Policy (slowly going) - Read the BTS and PTS documentation - Join debian-mentors
What else should I be doing before I embark on getting a package ready? Does an overall checklist like the above already exist, that I should be following?
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