Hey Javier, just wanted to ask if you got my email, which is cited below. It would help a lot if you'd answer it, if you find some time.
Thanks in advance, Best Regards Patrick ----- Forwarded message from Patrick Schoenfeld <[email protected]> ----- Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:10:28 +0100 From: Patrick Schoenfeld <[email protected]> To: [email protected], Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Subject: devscripts and debian-goodies -- collorboration useful? Hi, today I had a discussion with Raphael Geissert about a tool he wrote and it made me wonder if debian-goodies wouldn't be a good candidate to a collaboration between the devscripts maintainers and the debian-goodies maintainer. Reasons why I do think so: * devscripts already contains some tools which are not strictly related to making "the life of a Debian Package maintainer easier" and can be used by users as well. In fact some users already do. * debian-goodies and devscripts already have crossings, e.g. debget vs. dget * Neither about devscripts, nor about debian-goodies, one could say that it is over-maintained. The devscripts team has some active persons but still a lot of open bugs and debian-goodies has quiet some open bugs given its size. In my POV the ideal situation would be: - debian-goodies contains scripts which are useful for users and developers comparably - devscripts contains scripts mostly related to development - devscripts could depend on debian-goodies if it uses tools from it, but preferable not the other way round. So here is the actual suggestion: We could create a joined team to maintain debian-goodies and devscripts, either in two repositories where each of the team members would have commit access or in one repository (probably even better ;). In the long run it would make sense to replace the crossings in debian-goodies with the tools which are similar with the tools from devscripts and in return remove them from devscripts (if the criterias above are met). Just on a side note: I'm never sure if debian-goodies is a good name, because before I was told about it I never stumbled about it and for such a name I would never have searched. And another side note to the other devscripts maintainers: Maybe we should invite Raphael to join our team? ;) What do the adressed people think about that idea? Sincerely, Patrick with his devscripts team member hat on ----- End forwarded message ----- -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
