2011/5/31 Didier Raboud <o...@debian.org> > Le mardi, 31 mai 2011 05.30:34, Henry velez a écrit : > > My name is Henry Vélez. I am starting in Debian as a helper, because of > > that I would like to take care of these 2 packages: > > > > rastertosag-gd > > pxljr > > > > Please let me know if it is possible. > > Sure ! >
Thanks. > > By which yould you like to start with (I don't think it's good to work on > both > at the same time) ? In my humble opinion, it's maybe better to start with > modifying an existing package, that would be pxljr. > > ok. No problem. It is better to be focused in one in the beggining. pxljr will be. For pxljr, the first task would be to "Contact the current Ubuntu > maintainers > to ask them if they would be interested in (co-)maintaining the package > directly in Debian". Would you be ready to draft a mail to the current > Ubuntu > maintainer (Till Kamppeter), asking him what his opinions are ? > > Although note that in any case, importing the past Ubuntu uploads into a > git > repository, hosted on alioth.debian.org, is a good thing to do; this helps > reviewing past and future changes. Can you do that (hint: bzr-fastexport > should help) ? (You can start in a private git repository stored elsewhere > before pushing it to the "official" location.) > I will start right now. > > Once we have Till's answer and the past source packages in a git > repository, > we'll be ready for the needed changes to get it uploaded to Debian (in any > case, we need an ITP bug, e.g.). > When could be a good time to create an ITP bug? > > Don't hesitate to ask any questions you might have! > Shure. > > Cheers, > > OdyX, who is happy to have found someone. > > N.B. I CC'ed you on my answer, contrary to the Debian lists netiquette > (which > assumes that no copies are wanted). Are you subscribed to debian-printing > or > do you want explicit copies each time (which you should state explicitely > each > time) ? >
