[Pkg-ruby-extras-maintainers] ToDo items

[David Nusinow]

On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 04:05:19PM +0100, Paul van Tilburg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Just to clear my mind and hopefully yours as well, I want to mail a list
> of things that probably will have to be done but are not targetted
> towards a specific package:
> 
> - Add watch files to all packages.

Interesting but not critical

> - Adapt pkg-ruby-get-sources to use the watch files.

Same as above

> - Adapt the ruby-setup-rb.mk class to have a configurable clean-target.

Anything configurable in the class is good I think. The opacity of cdbs
bothers me to no end, so having targets like that helps.

> - Incorporate the use of piuparts[1] in our way of working/testing.

Definitely! Concrete ways of doing this don't seem to exist besides
manually running it when you want to though. Perhaps a makefile target, or
simply patching the debuild program to run piuparts?

> - Change all Maintainer fields of all packages to reflect the main
>   person taking care of the package, move the Team name & address to the
>   Upload field (already there AFAIK).

Yeah, I like this idea.

> - Get the policy discussion going again and create a draft.

Good stuff.

I'm still drowning in Xorg stuff, but I'll try and find the time to help
out with it... piuparts in particular is really interesting to me.

 - David Nusinow