Hi all!
I have been trying to get some kind of packaging guide for MOTU
Wannabes and people interested in packaging in general put together. It
will be a part of the ubuntu-docs package and on help.ubuntu.com. Some
MOTUs and the doc-team have been interested in this. I have created a
rough outline of some ideas at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuPackagingGuide/Outline . I would really
appreciate it if you guys would look it over and give me some
feedback/suggestions/criticism .
Here is some of my thoughts and reasoning behind the Ubuntu Packaging
Guide:
1. There are many different sources of information on packaging all
over the web. Sometimes they are contradictory and not applicable to
Ubuntu and sometimes the information is out-dated or wrong. It is hard
for a person wanting to learn to package (and help the MOTU) to get
correct information.
2. The Debian New Maintainer's Guide could be improved upon. Many
packaging newbies find the appendix to be the most instructive part. I
think that we can create a guide that makes extensive use of real
examples. I have in mind to use the hello packages for the examples. The
point is to get the readers to the examples as soon as possible.
3. I would like to make the Packaging Guide more modular. I would like
to try to have basic and advanced sections. Also, within the examples I
would like to have advanced tips in Tips balloons (not sure what the
proper terminology is for those). That way there will hopefully be info
for different experience levels. It might be also nice to have a
reference or glossary section but that might come later.
4. I would like to see more Ubuntu specific information. For example,
I think that information about ubuntu versioning, MOTU maintainership,
sponsorship, merges, syncs, the release cycle, and perhaps REVU would be
nice. I think that the only constraint would be that it would have to be
fairly stable if the Ubuntu Packaging Guide is to be shipped with the
ubuntu-docs package.
Anyway, I would like a healthy discussion of what concepts/tools should
be included and I don't want this to turn into just what I think a
Packaging Guide should look like. I think it should really be about what
the developers want to see in their new packagers and what people
learning to package need to know to meet the devs expectations.
I am looking forward to the motu-school sessions and hope that we can
pull some of the material into the Packaging Guide. If anybody feels the
desire to help that would also be appreciated. I will probably be asking
the MOTUs lots of questions (probably not very intelligently and with
much ignorance) but I hope in the end we can create a useful tool.
-Jordan Mantha (LaserJock)
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