Hi server-folk! At UDS during the community-server session we noticed that the Adopt a Package/Upstream projects are doing well on the desktop side, but is virtually non-existant on the Server side. Let's change that! Here are the pages for the projects: - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad/AdoptPackage - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Upstream/Adopt
The BugSquad page has a list of packages from the desktop folks of applications that need to be adopted. Those of you who have insight on packages that need love PLEASE add them to this list, also if you want to be a contact for something your an expert in then add yourself. Once we know which packages need the most love then we can work on finding people who want to rock it. If you are unfamiliar with adoption, the basic idea is that upstream projects have a "guru" person who is involved in both Ubuntu and the upstream project, and can help be the bridge. I work on a document for upstream projects on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Upstream that tries to outline "how to work with us". The upstream contact/adoptee is the person who helps them get the information they need to work with us. This can be anything from development, to bug work, to even just pointing people in the right direction in IRC. If you know someone who is doing this kind of work (and they are out there), then I need your help so we can talk about their contributions to this important work. Here's two examples of some adoptees whose work is being recognized not only in Ubuntu but by upstream projects themselves! http://castrojo.tumblr.com/post/785661804/papercutter-profile-marcus-carlson http://castrojo.tumblr.com/post/967279398/upstream-contact-bruno-girin Feel free to ping me if you know people doing this kind of thing, and better yet, blog/tweet about it yourself! -- Jorge Castro Canonical Ltd. http://twitter.com/castrojo Need help with Ubuntu? Ask the experts at http://ubuntu.stackexchange.com -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
