[Pkg-cups-devel] RFC: Forming a Printing Task Force (was RFA: cups -- Common UNIX Printing System)

[Didier 'OdyX' Raboud]

Hi all, 

Just a short update before a new one-week vacation (until the 2. August).

Le samedi 3 juillet 2010 14:16:12 Jonas Smedegaard, vous avez écrit :
> On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 01:11:46PM +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:
>
> I am personally very hesitant joining a team that I do not know which
> policies will emerge from, and I guess I am not alone in that.
> 
> Therefore I suggest we move in the following steps, to both make room
> for early adopters and scepticism:
> 
>   0) Create a wiki page (done already: awesome!)

I updated it with the QA link (to measure the work wrt bugs).

>   1) Decide on a mailinglist

I propose to use "Debian Printing Group <debian-printing at lists.debian.org>" as 
mailing list (that would be an adoption/friendly-takeover from gutenprint).

That list already receives mails from various cups-related bugs and the only 
package that has it as Maintainer is gutenprint, which is orphaned. I tried to 
contact Roger Leigh (the previous maintainer of gutenprint, author of the O: 
mail) on IRC (on the #debian-printing channel), without success so far. He is 
CC'ed in order to get his opinion on this.

>   2) Let early adopters switch to use ML as package maintainer
>   3) Discuss ideas for more tight collaboration than that
>   4) Let more join - and perhaps some leave if not liking team evolution

This seems a reasonable course of action to me.

> Kind regards,
> 
>   - Jonas
> 
> P.S.
> 
> I have an interest in profesional grade desktop publishing, and am quite
> skilled in packaging routines, but not in C og PostScript coding, and am
> also involved in quite a few packaging projects, which limits my
> abilities debugging.

Welcome in the "I'd like to help, but my time and skills are limited" team. :-)

> P.P.S.
> 
> I am not in charge of the ghostscript package - formally I am simply a
> "helping hand" although in reality it has unfortunately been somewhat
> the only active "hand" for some time, as can be seen in the packaging
> changelog.  So my being interested in this shared team is speaking for
> myself, not (yet) on behalf of the ghostscript "team".

Cheers, 

OdyX

-- 
Didier Raboud, proud Debian Maintainer (DM).
CH-1020 Renens
didier at raboud.com
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