Hi Benjamin, On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:25:12PM +0200, Benjamin Drung wrote: > I am DD and Ubuntu developer. The ubuntu-dev-tools package in Debian is > maintained by Stefano Rivera and me. I subscribed to this mailing list > and joined the devscripts alioth group.
first of all: welcome. Second, yes this is the right place to discuss devscripts changes and additions (including the question weither introducing a new language is adequate). > I like to get involved in the maintenance of devscripts. There are some > things that I like to do: Reduce the delta to the Ubuntu package, > refreshing the packaging (simplifying debian/rules for example), adding > test cases that are run on package build time, and last but not least > getting scripts from ubuntu-dev-tools into devscripts. Sounds good, mostly. However, there is still a decision to be made if we'd like to have python scripts in devscripts. I know that James expressed concerns about the maintenance of python scripts by the current team. Personally I would not mind python scripts in devscripts. As all in the team know my time is very limited, so my opinion shouldn't be crucial, but I wouldn't mind to support them aswell. > Is there any documentation or guidelines that I should know? Should I > push my changes into the master branch and they will get reviewed there > or should I use a separate branch? Usually maintenance of devscripts follows common sense and is centered around communication in the IRC channel. If you plan to make bigger changes which may have a greater impact its probably a good idea to create a local branch and merge it into master after intensive testing and after coordination with the team. Generally coordination with the team is good as the more active maintainers, like jamessan and adsb, might always be in the process of preparing a release, where disruptive changes aren't good. > PS: Does a list archive exists of this mailing list? There used to be one on teams.debian.net AFAIR, but its down since a while. However mailarchive.com is keeping an archive [1].. Best Regards, Patrick [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/index.html -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
