[Pkg-mailman-hackers] mailman-ssls packaging and massive bugfixing work

[Thijs Kinkhorst]

On Wed, January 19, 2011 09:40, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
>
>> Thanks for your mail. I know of the ssls-patch. Your comments/fixes for
>> that I'll leave up to ssls upstream.
>
> OK. One thing I’ve noticed is that unsubscribing then resubscribing
> a user (as site admin) doesn’t change their PGP key or unset it,
> nor am I (site admin) allowed to change theirs in the WUI. I’ve
> been considering to allow site admins to change any user PGP key.
>
>> As you may have notices the pkg-mailman-hackers list is a quiet affair.
>
> Indeed. But many are ;-)
>
>> I've been using a semi-policy for Debian patches to only patch important
>> bugs and let everything else be handled by upstream. This is motivated
>> by
>> the fact that there's hardly anyone working on Mailman packaging in
>> Debian, adn there's quite some legacy in the current packaging, so I'd
>> rather not add more maintenance overhead if we can barely keep up with
>> what we have.
>
> I totally understand, and this is sensible in that case.
>
>> That said, you're wholeheartedly invited to become a committer on the
>> pkg-mailman project, and if you want to build a separate binary package
>> that includes the ssls patch you're welcome to do so. I would just like
>> to
>> stress again the fact that there's not much maintenance power right now
>> so
>> if you add such a thing I would hope that you would maintain it too.
>
> OK. Since I *use* Mailman at work, I can even do that during daytime,
> but then, I probably would like to get the feature patches into the
> main package. On the other hand, I’ll maintain them then, and I don’t
> plan on changing employers any time soon. Considering the number of
> bugs in the BTS, this might even be a good thing, as I’m known for
> taking on weird things if bored ☺
>
>> Let me know your username if I should add you to the project.
>
> That would be tg.

Great, I've added you. Go ahead to make changes you think are appropriate.


Cheers,
Thijs