Re: Taking over orphaned biology packages
On Sun, 13 Apr 2003, Andreas Tille wrote: > If anybody would be able to care for > > bugsx > fastlink > njplot I just took over njplot. If nobody shows up for bugsx and fastlink I will take it soon. Kind regards Andreas. -- Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. John F. Kennedy
Re: Taking over orphaned biology packages
Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 12 Apr 2003, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-changes/2003/debian-devel-changes-200304/msg00824.html > Many thanks to Mario. Indeed. > I just ask on Debian-Med with this mail (sorry for quoting you in > a public list, but I think it does no harm here). For the record, this was fine; if I had had anything especially private to say, I probably would have encrypted the mail and explicitly indicated the private portion. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info.
Re: Taking over orphaned biology packages
On 14 Apr 2003, Elizabeth Barham wrote: > > If nobody shows up for bugsx and fastlink I will take it soon. > > What all is involved? Sorry, I do not understand your question. Please explain. Andreas. -- Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. John F. Kennedy
Re: Taking over orphaned biology packages
Andreas writes: > If nobody shows up for bugsx and fastlink I will take it soon. What all is involved? Elizabeth
Re: Taking over orphaned biology packages
Andreas Tille writes: >> What all is involved? > Sorry, I do not understand your question. Please explain. What all is involved in maintaining these packages or, for that matter, any debian package? I've not maintained a package before, which is why I ask. What all does one do when he or she becomes the maintainer of a package? I'm slightly interested in maintaining the fastlink package. I briefly looked into it and it seems like its a suite of command-line tools probably written in C which I think would be fun to investigate and update for compatibility reasons if necessary. Sincerely, Elizabeth
Re: Taking over orphaned biology packages
Hi, On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 02:38:43PM -0500, Elizabeth Barham wrote: >What all is involved in maintaining these packages or, for that > matter, any debian package? You can have a look at http://www.debian.org/devel The Newmaintainer's Guide and the Debian Policy are must-reads if you want to maintain packages. The Developer's Reference is highly recommended and a must-read if you want to become a debian developer. >I've not maintained a package before, which is why I ask. What all > does one do when he or she becomes the maintainer of a package? You care for bugs, either by fixing them yourself, seeking help from other people/developers or forwarding them to the upstream authors. You package new upstream version as they get released. You update your package to current policy if policy gets revised. You try to communicate with other developers at least as long as their packages interoperate with yours somehow. That's mostly it. As long as you are not a Debian Developer, you will have to find a sponsor (i.e. a current Debian Developer) who can upload packages into the archive for you. In this case, Andreas or I could sponsor you. But people should really only maintain packages if they think they'll apply as a new debian developer in the future. Beware though, this process might take some time (up to one year, even if you don't make any mistakes) Hope that helps, Michael
