Packaging new addon

[James McCoy]

On Sat, Jul 30, 2016 at 12:34:47PM +0200, David Rabel wrote:
> Hi there,

Hello!

> I'm new to Debian as a maintainer, that means I have not packaged
> anything yet, but want to start it now.
> By looking through WNPP I found an RFP for a vim addon:
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=825665

Welcome to Debian!  Thanks for contributing to the Vim ecosystem.

> It seems to me to be a good package to start packaging, because it is
> probably very easy. I already found this:
> https://pkg-vim.alioth.debian.org/vim-policy.txt and read the Debian New
> Maintainers Guide. So with this information I'm going to package it. :-)

I'm intending to update vim-policy once I'm able to get
vim-addon-manager adapted to leverage Vim's new "package" functionality.

> My question is: Are Addon-Packages also coordinated on this mailing
> list? Or generally packaged by the pkg-vim-maintainers team?

Not necessarily.  It's up to the maintainer.  For example, Andrea
Capriotti has packaged quite a few addons independent of the team.

> Can I just
> package it and look for a sponsors on mentors mailing list? Or do i ask
> for sponsoring here?

Again, that's up to you. :) However, I don't have a lot of extra time to
offer, so I can't guarantee respone times to sponsorship requests.
Also, it's probably better to work with mentors if you're interested in
eventually becoming a DM or DD.


On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 03:48:30PM +0200, David Rabel wrote:
> so I built a package for vim-lastplace addon. (
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=825665 )
> 
> But now I am not sure if it is appreciated to have an extra package for
> such a small addon. For me of course it would be nice to have a small
> easy package to start as maintainer, but the user it would probably be
> better to include it into vim-scripts. I don't know. What do you think?

Individual packages are fine.  Given the current state of vim-scripts,
that's probably better.  I've been delaying updating vim-scripts because
of various problems in vim-addon-manager that I know will be encountered
if those scripts are updated.  I need to get vim-addon-manager fixed
first.

Cheers,
-- 
James
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