[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Re: evening courses

[Eric Heintzmann]

Hubert Chan a écrit :

>On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 23:46:39 +0200, Eric Heintzmann said:
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>>    Hi everybody, These days, I made a decision: in September I will
>>register myself into evening class.  It means I will be busy (and
>>probably tired) every evening of the week, and will have no time to
>>continue to maintain Debian packages.  I'm sorry but there is no
>>solution, I have to resign from Debian maintenance (in September, not
>>now).
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>Sorry to hear that.  I wish you luck in the course, and hope that you
>can re-join the team after you are done the course. ;-)
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Thanks. I hope I can re-join the GNUstep team too.

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>>I hope Hubert Chan can maintain the GNUstep Core packages. I will help
>>him as far as possible. It seems very motivated...
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>I will take a look at those packages, and try to look at fixing the FHS
>issues.
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>If you want, you can add me to the alioth project.  My alioth user id is
>uhoreg-guest.
>

Done. I set you as admin and Gürkan too.
I will give you the password in a private mail.

>  Are you currently using CVS or Arch through alioth?
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No, there was no need for CVS until now and I'm not familiar with CVS.
If you are familiar with CVS, do it now (you are admin).
If you are not familiar with CVS too, I will learn and do it.
I suggest to use a Core section for Core GNUstep packages and an Apps
section for application (like GWorkspace, Gorm, ProjectCenter) or maybe
usr-app and dev-app sections or anything that you think it is better.
I also suggest to only upload in CVS the

>  Let
>me know what you currently have set up in regards to how the packaging
>team works.  You can reply on-list or privately, whichever you think is
>more appropriate.
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There isn't really a team : each maintainer work on his packages alone.
Remember we are short on manpower.

>>In August, I can release the latest version of GNUstep if wished.  But
>>if there is an ABI change, It mean rebuild all GNUstep packages. And
>>if later, it decided to make GNUstep FHS compliant, you will have to
>>build all GNUstep packages again.  Maybe it's best to wait a bit ?
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>I think that it would make most sense to do a maintenance release to fix
>all the current easily-fixable RC bugs in the old GNUstep version so
>that GNUstep will be installable, and then package the new upstream
>version when we make changes to make the GNUstep packages more FHS
>compliant.  That way, packages only need to be rebuilt once.
>

OK, I'm going to prepare this maintainance release.

>  I hope to
>be able to start looking at FHS-related changes this week.
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If you have any questions...

>The bugs that I am aware of are:
>- #314823 actually a bug in freetype -- see #314385 -- but looks like
>  it's easily fixable on our end by a reupload of gnustep-back
>- #321495 only filed with severity normal in the BTS, but should be
>  grave, since it renders the package uninstallable.  Should be fixable
>  by just reuploading gnustep-base
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I'm aware too.

    Eric