Re: About Package Maintenance (was: Question to all candidates: What are your technical goals)

2024-04-09 Thread Andreas Tille
Am Tue, Apr 09, 2024 at 01:03:10PM + schrieb Stefano Rivera: > > I have also noticed that the young people we manage to recruit are > > usually not interested too much in the boring gruntwork of maintaining > > important core packages (like adduser and sudo) but instead want to do > > "new"

Janitor (Was: About Package Maintenance)

2024-04-09 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Colin, Am Tue, Apr 09, 2024 at 12:03:52PM +0100 schrieb Colin Watson: > I'm not sure how widely known it is, but the Janitor does have a > mechanism for overriding the versions of Debian it retains compatibility > with based on various considerations, and I've found it useful to land > changes

Re: About Package Maintenance (was: Question to all candidates: What are your technical goals)

2024-04-09 Thread Stefano Rivera
Hi Marc (2024.04.08_16:48:13_+) > I have also noticed that the young people we manage to recruit are > usually not interested too much in the boring gruntwork of maintaining > important core packages (like adduser and sudo) but instead want to do > "new" things. But, otoh, what would Debian be

Re: About Package Maintenance (was: Question to all candidates: What are your technical goals)

2024-04-09 Thread Colin Watson
[I'm skipping most of this email because I haven't generally been keeping up with the thread, but thought it might be worth pointing out one thing.] On Mon, Apr 08, 2024 at 06:48:13PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Thu, Apr 04, 2024 at 12:38:34PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > Before uploading I

Re: About Package Maintenance

2024-04-09 Thread Gioele Barabucci
On 09/04/24 08:52, Simon Richter wrote: Otoh, I am fully aware of the "you can't force a volunteer to do things", knowing that I myself would be the first one to violently oppose a decision that I don't like while - at the same time - being mad at some core package maintainers who have forced

Re: About Package Maintenance

2024-04-09 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 4/9/24 01:48, Marc Haber wrote: Otoh, I am fully aware of the "you can't force a volunteer to do things", knowing that I myself would be the first one to violently oppose a decision that I don't like while - at the same time - being mad at some core package maintainers who have forced

Re: About Package Maintenance (was: Question to all candidates: What are your technical goals)

2024-04-08 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Monday, April 8, 2024 12:48:13 PM EDT Marc Haber wrote: > > > "we replace exim with postfix as the default MTA", > > > > A, this question always makes me wonder: If our default MTA is exim > > why do I have such a hard time to find documents about exim in wiki.d.o > > while there is

About Package Maintenance (was: Question to all candidates: What are your technical goals)

2024-04-08 Thread Marc Haber
This is the continuation of a thread from debian-vote, that originated from a question about technical goals to the DPL candidates (https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2024/04/msg4.html). I will try to quote generously to deliver context. On Thu, Apr 04, 2024 at 12:38:34PM +0200, Andreas