Re: Looking for maintainers of Spacewalk packages
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 06:08:43AM +0200, Miroslav Suchý wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm developer of Spacewalk [1,2]. Spacewalk is an open source
> (GPLv2) Linux systems management solution. It is the upstream
> community project from which the Red Hat Network Satellite product
> is derived.
>
> Recently we added initial support for Debian [3,4]. We even build
> packages for Debian [5]. However - I'm not sure if we have capacity
> and resources for maintaining Debian packages properly. I mean: to
> follow all the best practices of Debian, to become Debian
> maintainer...
>
> So I'm looking for Debian developer/maintainer who would like to
> maintain those 10 packages. I will be glad even if you are willing
> to maintain even some package(s). Volunteers? If you have questions,
> I'm ready to help you as best as I can.
>
As a Red Hat and Centos sysadmin and user, primarily at work, and a very rusty
Debian developer, I'd be willing to help if needed, even if only in testing.
> BTW: our plan for summer, is to develop plugin for apt-get which
> allows you to download packages from Spacewalk server directly using
> apt-get. That is last missing piece for declaring support for Debian
> as complete.
>
> [1] http://www.redhat.com/spacewalk/
> [2] https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/
> [3] https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/Deb_support_in_spacewalk
> [4] https://www.redhat.com/archives/spacewalk-list/2010-May/msg00208.html
> [5] https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=home%3Axsuchy%3Adebian-spacewalk
>
>
> Miroslav Suchy
>
AndyC
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