On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Lars Wirzenius <[email protected]> wrote: > * a contact point within Debian for upstreams to use ... > For the second thing, I propose an "upstream front desk" of some sort. > Stefano, in his role as the DPL, agreed that it would be good. The UFD > would be the point of first contact for new upstreams, and would guide > them to the right people in Debian to help them with the packaging of > the upstream software. They could also help upstreams later, if there > are problems in their relationship with Debian, e.g., the volunteer Debian > package maintainer goes missing. > > I am not sure what the best way to implement the UFD would be. Perhaps > a mailing list (debian-upstream?) with a few volunteers would be a good > start? If this gets created, I'll join. Anyone else like to help with > that?
That sounds like a good idea. As long as I would not be alone, I would be willing to join such a list and answer questions from our upstreams. -- 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/[email protected]
