>>>>> On Sat, 26 May 2001, "Colin" == Colin Fowler wrote:
Colin> Hi all, well as the subject line says I'm interested in Colin> maintaining some Debian Packages and have signed up at Colin> http://www.internatif.org/bortzmeyer/debian/sponsor/. Now Colin> unfortunately I dont know any other Debian Developers so I hope Colin> this is the right place to ask for assistance. I'm interested in sponsoring you. And yes, this is a good place to ask for assistance. Colin> Basically I have packaged the following and would love to maintain Colin> then. i use these programs everyday myself. Colin> Oroborus windowmanager - A very liteweight wm - no frills like Colin> setting background etc. themeable, and thats about it - all it Colin> does is handle windows. everything else is handled by whatever Colin> panels, taskmanagers, icon handlers you chose to use yourself. Colin> Its gnome compliant and has Xinerama support (My package doesnt Colin> support Xinerama as I dont have a Xinerama setup) If possible, try to get it compiled with the Xinerama support, as there will be those in Debian who will want to use it. Colin> Keylaunch - Allows you to bind keys to launch programs in X. i.e Colin> alt-return for an Xterm ctrl-alt-n for netscape etc. Very handy :) Colin> Deskmenu A tiny gtk root menu that allows you to launch programs, Colin> select tasks or quit X. Colin> Desklaunch A little program to add icons to your desktop Colin> All of these sources are available from Colin> http://www.kensden.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Oroborus/download.htm. Colin> Ive made up packages of all of these and they are available at Colin> http://indigo.ie/~fowler/oroborus/. none contain manpages because Colin> the original sources came with none and I haven't written them Colin> yet. No manpages is fine for now. However, you should set up that subdirectory of your homepage to be apt-able, so that one can add it to their sources.list. If you have apt version 0.5.0 or above, install the apt-utils package and read the apt-ftparchive manpage; or, read the manpages for dpkg-scanpackages and dpkg-scansources from the dpkg-dev package. Note that for these two, the override file they want can just be /dev/null. And if you need help doing this, feel free to ask. Also, what Debian distribution are you running? Developers are usually expected to run testing, if not unstable, in order to to build packages. Colin> If anyone is interested in helping me in my quest to become a Colin> Debian developer and give back to a project that I love please Colin> contact me ! Certainly :) -chris -- "Meat. They're made out of meat." "It's better than bad, it's good!" (I subscribe to all lists that I post to; please do not Cc me on list reply) Chris Danis [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]
