Hi reportbug maintainers! I'm a DD, and I'm interested in possibly helping work on reportbug. In the long run, I'm interested in becoming a trusted-enough maintainer of reportbug to be able to have push access and the ability to upload the package, although I know that may be a long road (months? years?).
My personal motivation is that I have been reporting bugs in Debian for a long time, and I personally care a lot that newcomers to Debian have a good experience, and today I reported a bug in Debian and accidentally managed to do it incorrectly (MTA confusion), despite many years of experience with reportbug, and I figure the best thing to do in response is to commit to spending time improving this very widely-used package. Before beginning down that road, I thought I would say hello on this list, and also ask if you're interested in more contributors/eventual-maintainers! Given the fact that there are some bugs with patches at https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=reportbug;dist=unstable , it seems that it would be useful to have more co-maintainers of the package so that there is more bandwidth available to review patches. Is that an accurate assessment? The first thing I will probably do is find a few bugs on https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=reportbug;dist=unstable and submit refreshed patches for them, such as: - https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=717563 - https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=431402 - https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=664213 I'm also curious what kind of timeframe to expect patch review. I ask because my ability to work on Debian tasks is at its highest right now, while I'm traveling during/after Debconf, and then decreases when I get back to normal life/work, and then will increase and decrease over time. So therefore if I submit some patches in the next 1-2 days, it'd be very helpful to get review/merge on them within 1-2 days so that I can revise them and resubmit in a prompt fashion. We can't always get what we want, and so if very prompt patch review is not possible, that is OK! Just let me know. If there are specific tasks that you would find useful from me as a new contributor, I hope to hear about them so I can focus on them! I'm writing this while a little sleepy, so if my tone is strange, I hope you'll read this email in good faith anyway. Thanks, Asheesh.
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