[pkg-horde] Re: Horde Maintainers Team

Roberto C. Sanchez roberto at familiasanchez.net
Mon Mar 13 02:15:17 UTC 2006


Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 11:24:34PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> 
>>Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> 
> 
>>>I noticed you are the maintainer of Horde packages, namely gollem
>>>and chora2. We have recently created a Horde Maintainers Team for
>>>Debian (on alioth). Would you like to join the team and have your
>>>horde packages handled by the team?
> 
> 
>>Yes I would like that.  Sorry for the long delay in replying.  I
>>have been offline for the past six weeks.
> 
> 
> I've been quite busy for the last few weeks, so sorry for the long
> delay in replying in the other direction.
> 
No problem.

> 
>>Let me know what I need to do.
> 
> 
>  - With your next upload of your packages, put:
> 
>    Maintainer: Horde Maintainers <pkg-horde-hackers at lists.alioth.debian.org>
>    Uploaders: Roberto C. Sanchez <roberto at familiasanchez.net>, Ola Lundqvist <opal at debian.org>, Lionel Elie Mamane <lmamane at debian.org>, Jose Carlos Medeiros <debian at psabs.com.br>, Gregory Colpart (evolix) <reg at evolix.fr>
> 
>    in debian/control. The rule is: The mailing list as Maintainer,
>    yourself (the main maintainer of the package) as _first_ in
>    "Uploaders", then the other team members in Uploaders.
> 
No problem.

>  - Subscribe to the ML if you are not yet subscribed.
> 
I am already subscribed :-)

>  - Add your packages to the GNU Arch repository. One branch for
>    upstream version, one branch for sid (and one branch for the stable
>    release if when you issue an update for stable). The early archives
>    of the list contain example sessions by me. Feel free to ask any
>    question. (Cannot really expand right now.)
> 
OK.  I don't know the first thing about arch, but I will look into in a
couple of weeks.  Up to now I have kept my packages in my own personal
subversion repository.  Shold I try and convert that over or just do a
fresh checkin/add of my packages where they are right now?

>  - Continue taking good care of your packages :)
> 
Always :-)

>  - Hang around on the ML; if you see a problem (bug, new upstream
>    version, ...) that you can address (with a fix, an upload, a remark
>    / idea on the bug log, ...), do it! You are authorised and
>    encouraged to work on other packages handled by the team (including
>    making uploads), as every other member of the team is encouraged to
>    help out on your packages.
> 
OK.

>    Add yourself in the "Uploaders" line of a package if you are not
>    already there when doing an upload. Uploads count as maintainer
>    uploads as far as Debian procedures are concerned.
> 
Check.

>    Feel also free to sponsor uploads of non-DD members of the team
>    (after reviewing their work, as usual with sponsored uploads).
> 
Since I am not a DD, I will not be doing this (yet). :-)

> I've populated the website http://pkg-horde.alioth.debian.org/ with a
> small "procedures" page. I think we're getting to the size where
> writing these things down is useful.
> 
Regards,

-Roberto

-- 
Roberto C. Sanchez
http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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