Hi all, One of my workitems coming out of UDS is to make a proposal here on the list, based on the discussion in the session.
- Last cycle, we edited the Ubuntu packaging documentation to encourage submitting new packages upstream to Debian first. All agreed that this was good for both Debian and Ubuntu. - The suggestion from the room was to close REVU now, and change the documentation to point new packagers at #ubuntu-packaging and #ubuntu-motu. It's not helpful to new developers to have a site running and all the documentation saying to submit their packages there, when they aren't going to get help there. The IRC channels are active, and a good place to get help on packaging, and to get to know the Ubuntu developers who might sponsor the new package, or advise the packager to submit it to Debian instead. - As a longer-term step, talk with the developers of DebExpo (mentors.debian.net) about some features to enable downstream derivatives like Ubuntu to work directly in what would probably be renamed to mentors.debian.org. This could be as simple as adding some new tags, but could potentially involve some more advanced handling of non-Debian source packages, or integration with external services (e.g. Ubuntu PPAs). We've been talking about this off and on for a few months on ubuntu-devel, and in many ways the conversation at UDS just summed up that wider conversation. The main "mental shift" is in ordering: shut down the old right away, then grow the new process. What do you all think? Thoughts, comments, or suggestions? Allison -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
