>> Hi, earlier I asked (well, I don't know if it made it to the list... I > It did, after 10 hours.
=) Yeah.. of course the very second I sent that message, I came back to my inbox to find that the other had arrived. I wonder if it got auto-released since I joined the list at that time. > I guess the standard procedure would be to start by submitting revised > versions of these packages to the package submission tracker (possibly > accompanied by a gentle nudging on fink-devel if reactions on the > tracker are too slow). This concerns existing packages that you want to > maintain as well as new packages. In this way, people can look whether > your packages are working and also help you with the mistakes you will > inevitably make at the beginning. You see, it first has to be > established whether having you as a maintainer is better than having no > maintainer ;-) *chuckle* ok as a test case (to learn the ropes so to speak) I'll work on jwgc's package real quick and submit that. Then I'll look into the others. Of course, one problem is, many of them don't have newer versions available than what's currently in stable, so... any reason to bother recompiling them? > You probably should also look at the cvs logs to see whether these > packages are really unmaintained. Some of them might in fact be > collectively maintained or have de-facto maintainers who, for whatever > reason, don't show up in the Maintainer field. Hrm, ok! > Also, as you have seen in the case of Justin's packages, the Fink > package database is not very intelligent when it comes to packages where > several versions have different maintainers. Sometimes only older > versions are unmaintained. So maybe the one for fink 0.4.whatever is unmaintained but newer versions of fink are kept up to date? > No principal problem here (except you can't take over maintainership of > Justin's abandoned 10.2-gcc3.3 packages, which is a pity. Someone should). Ok! What about new submissions, btw? So I just submit them like any other submission or are there special rules for new stuff? I'll need to go back some, but there were definitely a couple of packages that I came across in the past that I said to myself "wow, I wish there was a fink package for this". =) > In any case, I am sure everybody here welcomes you and your offer. *grin* glad to hear it! Daniel ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
