Re: Yet another list statistics for debian-lex

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On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 08:14 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Please have a look at
> 
>      http://blends.alioth.debian.org/lex/
> 
> It took me about 15 minutes to reach the status as it is with the
> tasks pages (I just prepared three tasks as examples) and the bugs pages
> for the developers.
> 
> The basic where the tasks and bugs pages are rendered from are the so
> called tasks files which are avialable at
> 
>      http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/blends/projects/lex/trunk/debian-lex/tasks/?rev=0&sc=0
> 
> and which is in fact the "work" I had to do - everything else was done
> automatically and even building of metapackages would be possible from
> now on using the blends-dev framework.
> How to continue from here?
> 
> At first I would ask for a login at alioth.debian.org.  Once you have
> this login just ask me to add this user ID to the blends project which
> enables you access to the svn above.  You will see that adding information
> to the tasks files is quite simple - advanced examples are for instance
> in
> 
>      http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/blends/projects/med/trunk/debian-med/tasks/?rev=0&sc=0
> 
> Feel free to ask if anything remains unclear (either in private or also
> via the list debian-custom@lists.debian.org).

I would like to read more about debian-med. I remember debian-lex was
trying to tee off debian-med, but it was informal. So now all the wisdom
has become vested in blends-dev and blends-common? blends-dev is not in
etch, the only Debian I can reach right now (writing in Ubuntu). Is it
in testing, unstable? I'll ask the noob questions on debian-custom.

>   BTW, a new strictly blends
> oriented list will be created hopefully soon (you might support this
> by adding your opinion to http://bugs.debian.org/514023 by sending a mail
> to 514023@bugs.debian.org) and I would suggest to subscribe this list to
> be informed about new Blends related techniques or to influence decisions
> about these techniques.
Done.
> 
> If you might hesitate to just work on the tasks files directly it is
> fine to send me patches for a beginning period.  But I see no chances
> to break anything important.
> 
> You might decide yourself whether you want continue a discussing about
> possible further tasks on the Wiki to enable a wider audience to edit
> changes and then move the result to the tasks files or whether you relay
> on discussion on the debian-lex mailing list like:
> 
>    - please add a new task containing package x
>    - please add package y to task t
> 
> (Please do not hesitate to ask if anything remains unclear!)

I would make use of all the tools that are already all provided, mailing
list, wiki, and now a blends subproject. What luxury.
> 
> The next step is trying to involve developers to work down the
> todo list which are the "red" entries on the tasks pages (for
> instance elawoffice at
> http://blends.alioth.debian.org/lex/tasks/admin.html ).
> While it is sometimes hard to find an official Debian Developer
> for this task you might like to ask whether upstream is able to
> do some packaging work (it is also in upstreams interest to have
> Debian packages) and ask a Debian Developer to sponsor such a
> package to the official Debian mirror.
> 
> I hope these hints were not to overwhelming and wish you good
> luck with Debian Lex!
> 
> Kind regards
> 
>       Andreas.
> 
It's not too overwhelming, but overwhelming enough, especially at about
10 on Sun. eve. But I see some things are moving ...



Elaine