Hi Perl folks,
(and former uploaders of lintian in BCC since I know some people who
might be MIA and do not want to expose their e-mail addresses)
as you might have read in my first "Bits from DPL"[1] I was pointed out
to the fact that lintian is in an unfortunate state as Axel Beckert
confirmed on the lintian maintainers list[2]. Yesterday I had a long
and kind chat with Axel to become informed about the status in even more
detail to be able to find out some potential ways to enhance the
situation of our policy checking tool.
In my attempt to contact all larger teams in Debian in general I'm using
this reason to show up here. As you probably know lintian is written in
Perl and while its not urgently necessary to understand Perl to help on
all open bugs / MRs it might help a lot if you speak Perl fluently.
I know Axel more than 20 years and confirm its great to work together
with him. He is currently doing his very best to wade through open bugs
and MRs but his time is limited. Please consider my mail as a proxied
call for help. ;-) He would accept any DD as a team member immediately
(hello xz backdoor). For non-DDs who want to help out and by doing so
do some rewarding work for an important tool Axel would like to see some
patches for open bugs or MRs in Salsa to enlarge trust. Apropos xz
backdoor: I see the initial cause of the problem that the maintainer was
working hard alone. So we want to make sure that our important tools
are not maintained by a single person in the first place. (If you want
to discuss this in general (again) please use debian-project list and
change subject!)
From my experience you can always find some low hanging fruits in a long
list of open bugs. Just be bold and see whether you can start with
theses. Any contribution is helpful, thought.
To come back to my general contact to the Perl team: My personal
impression of your team is pretty good. I frequently mention it as an
example for a well written policy and good team metrics stats. Please
do not hesitate to contact me in case I might have overlooked anything
and you have the impression I could help you in any way.
I'm looking forward to join your BoF on DebConf24 in Busan
Andreas.
[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2024/05/msg00000.html
[2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lint-maint/2024/04/msg00010.html
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