Hi I think that Debian needs something like ArchLinux AUR (Arch User repository). If you want packaging software for Debian you only have two possibilities: 1. Get the package through mentors into the official Debian repository (wich can be very frustraiting) or 2. host your software on your own server and probably no one will find it ever. Ubuntu has at least the PPA's that are all hosted on launchpad, but I personally find them less elegant, as an optional activated global "community" repository that lives outside Debian main.
I bet, that most of the packages submitted, are not going to be maintained over an extended period of time and therefor generate work for sponsoring DD's and maintainers. By providing a test bed for new packages and new maintainers, it would open the possibility that a potential maintainer can prove himself to provide high quality software and if he maintains the software over say 12 months without problems, the package could enter the RFS process. I think that something like that would dramatically reduce the number of RFS requests and new maintainers would have the ability to get their new packages out for testing. BTW: There is an upcomming Debian project which could help implementing a new parallel, non-official, community driven build infrastructure called debile (formerly know as debuild.me). https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-debile/ It is planed that debile could potentially implement something like PPA's. Kevin On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Paul Wise <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 2:37 AM, Dave Steele wrote: > >> I was curious about the current efficacy of the BTS-based RFS process, >> and so created some charts[1] to provide visibility. > > Interesting stuff, some thoughts... > > If you plan to continue running these charts, please add some links to > them on this wiki page: > > https://wiki.debian.org/Statistics > > At some point it might be interesting to merge them into the > mentors.debian.net code. > > Your conclusions are similar to what we know already anecdotally. The > problem is and always has been how to get existing members of Debian > to be interested in sponsoring and mentoring instead of doing their > own work. At DebConf13 the DPL mentioned what tends to work right now > and there were a couple of other mentoring related events, > unfortunately the BoF was not recorded but I think there might be > notes in gobby.debian.org. > > https://penta.debconf.org/dc13_schedule/events/972.en.html > https://penta.debconf.org/dc13_schedule/events/1082.en.html > https://penta.debconf.org/dc13_schedule/events/1002.en.html > > -- > bye, > pabs > > http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/CAKTje6GbJtKsCj4Tt8Mn0CddVj7-Z=fZL056=1uuarwdx3l...@mail.gmail.com > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CALONj1cAgt8=ZLP0d-=6jn1ggck3stuypetqhrge2oddvxk...@mail.gmail.com
