On 02/27/2012 12:13 PM, Bryce Harrington wrote:
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 06:03:02PM +0100, Daniel Holbach wrote:
Hello Bryce,
On 27.02.2012 18:00, Bryce Harrington wrote:
13 of those are "add_quicklist" which is a new category that I guess got
added recently? Problem is there is no documentation for how to sponsor
these kinds of items, and the patches are not packaged properly
(i.e. the changes are applied in-line not as debian patches), and most
haven't been forwarded upstream (or are pending being taken upstream).
So, while they're fairly tiny items, the work to process them looks
rather time consuming from a sponsor's perspective.
Thanks for bringing this up.
The 'add_quicklist' items were part of an initiative which Michael Hall
is driving. Unfortunately we noticed only later that this brings some
problems with untranslatability in universe. Michael, Didier and
Sébastien are currently in the process of finding a solution for these.
How about we omit them from the sponsor overview until that's sorted
out? Might save sponsors some head scratching time (I know I wasted a
good half our or so trying to figure out what to do with these, before
realizing none were really in an easily sponsorable state.)
That'd help us focus on clearing out the remaining 50 or so.
Bryce
If somebody has a non-developer friendly step-by-step tutorial for
turning the quicklist additions into easily sponsor-able packages, I
will gladly send the contributors there to improve their submissions.
At is was, *I* found the existing wiki documentation about using quilt
and edit-patch and everything very hard to follow (and indeed, I failed
to create a proper package patch when I tried).
Michael Hall
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