Re: Defoma Orphaned?
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 12:08:44PM +0100, Federico Di Gregorio wrote:
> Il mar, 2003-02-18 alle 21:31, Noah L. Meyerhans ha scritto:
> > On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 02:10:26PM -0500, Anthony Awtrey wrote:
> > > I have never maintained a package before and hesitate to ask for the
> > > responsibility to maintain something as key as defoma. However, I am
> > > very interested in helping with font issues both in X and with
> > > Ghostscript / OpenOffice. If someone is going to adopt Defoma and wants
> > > help with bugs and documentation, I'd like to volunteer!
> >
> > I fine way to help with the package, which doesn't even require any
> > committment, is to submit bugreports including patches. By including
> > the patches in bug reports (and setting the "patch" tag on the bug
> > report), you insure that there's a record of your contribution and that
> > whoever the maintainer can't misplace or forget about the patch. That's
> > especially important now, since defoma hasn't yet been adopted by
> > anybody.
>
> if nobody else wants it i can adopt it. i was also the author of defoma
> predecessor DTM, Debian Type Manager (for people old enough to remember
> it.. :)
>
> but it will take me some time to gain the necessary insight into it.
>
Federico
that pkg is a damn beast. I'd suggest to create a group of
experienced uploaders to help maintaining it. Also, a Defoma Group list
could be considered.
--
Francesco P. Lovergine
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