Bug#801253: [pkg-wicd-maint] Bug#801253: Forming a Debian WICD Packaging Team

[Herbert Fortes]

Hi Axel Beckert,


>
> I plan to do an upload under the pkg-wicd team before christmas, but I
> must admit it's not my highest priority package.
>

Team is good.


Let's wait the end of the month.



Regards,
Herbert

Bug#801253: [pkg-wicd-maint] Bug#801253: Forming a Debian WICD Packaging Team

[Axel Beckert]

Hi Herbert,

Herbert Fortes wrote:
> I use WICD with LXDE.
> 
> The package has two bug reports with patches. I can
> check if they really fix the problems and do the
> upload.

I'd appreciate that. Thanks for caring!

> The thread is long so I am asking: Someone will
> adopt the package ? Is someone taking care of the
> package ?

I plan to do an upload under the pkg-wicd team before christmas, but I
must admit it's not my highest priority package.

Regards, Axel
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Bug#801253: Forming a Debian WICD Packaging Team

[Herbert Fortes]

Hi,

I use WICD with LXDE.

The package has two bug reports with patches. I can
check if they really fix the problems and do the
upload.

The thread is long so I am asking: Someone will
adopt the package ? Is someone taking care of the
package ?



Regards,
Herbert

Bug#801253: Forming a Debian WICD Packaging Team

[Axel Beckert]

Hi Ritesh,

Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> Is this team going to take care of upstream maintenance too ?

No.

> IIRC, there's been no upstream development in some time.

There is Tom Van Braeckel who seems doing maintenance work, apply
submitted patches and streamling stuff. See
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~wicd-devel/wicd/experimental/changes/ and
the mailing list at https://sourceforge.net/p/wicd/mailman/wicd-devel/.

Nevertheless we -- on Debian Unstable -- are (togther with Arch and
maybe Gentoo) those who are exposed to new incompatibilites first (I
don't know what OS Tom uses, but I don't expect it to be Debian
Unstable), so we likely have to come up with patches then and when as
it happened in the past, mostly with pyuthon-urwid. But there is
someone again who imports them into and cares about upstream.

(This is _not_ meant as offense to David. I guess, we're all glad, he
started wicd in the beginning. :-)

Regards, Axel
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Bug#801253: Forming a Debian WICD Packaging Team

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

Hello Axel,

Is this team going to take care of upstream maintenance too ?
IIRC, there's been no upstream development in some time.


On Tue, 2016-05-24 at 00:27 +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Control: retitle -1 ITA: wicd -- wired and wireless network manager
> Control: owner -1 Debian WICD Packaging Team  an.org>
> Control: tag -1 + pending
> 
> Hi,
> 
> over the past half year I've seen quite some interest in contributing
> to wicd's packaging, especially with contributions from non-DDs like
> Salvo 'LtWorf' Tomaselli (did an NMU), toogley and just recently Giáp
> Trần.
> 
> But since they're no DDs, they had no commit access to the
> collab-maint project on Alioth: Salvo's NMU has been imported by me,
> toogley published his changes on Github and I synced them from there,
> and Giáp used "git format-patch" and sent the changes to me by e-mail.
> 
> So to allow non-DDs to easier participate (and less relying on me ;-)
> in maintaining Debian's wicd package, I've created a pkg-wicd project
> on Alioth and move wicd's packaging git repository there:
> 
>   https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-wicd/
>   https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-wicd/wicd.git (the web interface
>   still doesn't work, but I was able to push to
>   git+ssh://git.debian.org/git/pkg-wicd/wicd.git)
> 
> To still benefit from occasional contributions from various DDs as
> seen in the past and possible with a collab-maint project, I
> configured the pkg-wicd Alioth project to grant any DD commit access.
> That way non-DDs can easier get commit access while still having all
> advantages of a collab-maint project.
> 
> I'm happy to add anyone to the pkg-wicd group on Alioth who wants to
> help maintaining the wicd package. Either tell me by e-mail (include
> your Alioth user name) or use the web form at
> https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-wicd/.
> 
> I'd be especially happy if those who worked on the wicd package in the
> past would join the team, or at least the mailing list at
> https://alioth.debian.org/mail/?group_id=101007
> 
> Another thing I'd be happy about would be if at least one more DD
> would join the team, so that I can give him or her administrative
> access to the project to reduce the bus-factor. Being listed in
> Uploaders is _no_ requirement for that position. Gianfranco, Ritesh,
> Mattia, Emanuele, anyone? :-)
> 
>   Regards, Axel
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Bug#801253: Forming a Debian WICD Packaging Team

[Axel Beckert]

Control: retitle -1 ITA: wicd -- wired and wireless network manager
Control: owner -1 Debian WICD Packaging Team 

Control: tag -1 + pending

Hi,

over the past half year I've seen quite some interest in contributing
to wicd's packaging, especially with contributions from non-DDs like
Salvo 'LtWorf' Tomaselli (did an NMU), toogley and just recently Giáp
Trần.

But since they're no DDs, they had no commit access to the
collab-maint project on Alioth: Salvo's NMU has been imported by me,
toogley published his changes on Github and I synced them from there,
and Giáp used "git format-patch" and sent the changes to me by e-mail.

So to allow non-DDs to easier participate (and less relying on me ;-)
in maintaining Debian's wicd package, I've created a pkg-wicd project
on Alioth and move wicd's packaging git repository there:

  https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-wicd/
  https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-wicd/wicd.git (the web interface
  still doesn't work, but I was able to push to
  git+ssh://git.debian.org/git/pkg-wicd/wicd.git)

To still benefit from occasional contributions from various DDs as
seen in the past and possible with a collab-maint project, I
configured the pkg-wicd Alioth project to grant any DD commit access.
That way non-DDs can easier get commit access while still having all
advantages of a collab-maint project.

I'm happy to add anyone to the pkg-wicd group on Alioth who wants to
help maintaining the wicd package. Either tell me by e-mail (include
your Alioth user name) or use the web form at
https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-wicd/.

I'd be especially happy if those who worked on the wicd package in the
past would join the team, or at least the mailing list at
https://alioth.debian.org/mail/?group_id=101007

Another thing I'd be happy about would be if at least one more DD
would join the team, so that I can give him or her administrative
access to the project to reduce the bus-factor. Being listed in
Uploaders is _no_ requirement for that position. Gianfranco, Ritesh,
Mattia, Emanuele, anyone? :-)

Regards, Axel
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