On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 08:10:19PM -0300, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 10-09-2010 09:52, Julien Viard de Galbert wrote: > > First, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (current maintainer) if you have plans > > for Wheezy, please tell me so, if not, why don't you fill and RFH or RFA > > ? > > First, I would have appreciate if you had contacted me privately first. > Please accept my apology for not doing so, and being so rude and stupid. > Second, I didn't fill a RFH or RFA because of that idea a lot of us > have: next week I will be able to fulfill my plans and work on this or > that. Not because I don't want people to work on that package. > Fair. > Finally, I do have plans for Wheezy, same I had for Lenny and Squeeze, > and I do think there is a chance I will miss them again. When I first > adopted it a few years ago, I started working upstream, that's why > after several years webalizer got a new upstream, then Real Life (tm) > kicked my ass and I couldn't promote the changes I wanted to the Debian > package. > OK, thanks for your kind response to my rude way of asking. > > > So in case Felipe Augusto van de Wiel never answers, this is an Intent > > To Hijack ;) the webalizer package. > > You would find out that I'm rather active and replying rather quickly. > Well actually I found out you were member of RT shortly after sending the mail... but it was kind of too late, and I felt too stupid to find anything to do about it. > > > le the upstream was inactive for several years there are new releases > > now. A bug about this is open [2] since July 2008. And does not show > > much recent interest from the maintainer. > > 2: http://bugs.debian.org/491200 > > I do have an updated version of the package that dates back of late > 2008, which needs to be updated to be any useful. > > > > I feel what I'm currently doing is kind of rude, > > It is rude. > I plead guilty... > > > however webalizer deserve a better packaging. > > That's also true. > > > > I'm running my personal server at home for > > several years now so I keeps the logs (Eben Molgen explained why this is > > important) but If you want to have a look at what's in your log, then > > webalizer already does a great job for you. > > > > I'm currently learning the debian work and find it particularly > > difficult to start during freeze time... I'm going to need mentors and > > sponsor for that. So I did sent copy of this email to mentors for wise > > advices and a few other people that have shown interest in the package, > > sorry if it bothers you guys. > > Webalizer package is not really easy to upgrade for somebody starting > now because it requires some nitpicking to clean the old way of deal > with things and migrate to the new upstream format. > > > > My plan is: > > - wait a little for response > > - prepare a new package of the new version using format 3.0 quilt > > - check all patch from previous debian package > > - check all patch on the bts > > - check all remaining bugs on the bts > > - fill an RFS > > I don't mind seeing you doing the work, but indeed I would prefer > somebody more experienced. Anyway, I would even sponsor and guide > you thru the process. I don't mind somebody else adopting it > either. > > Right now I'm in the process of rearranging my time around Debian > because of Release Team work, webalizer is one of the packages I > like (even if I let it got in such bad state). :-( > > That's pretty much it. :) > Well you don't look to angry at me, maybe we can discuss privately on ways to maintain webalizer (maybe co-maintain it via alioth ?) But I had to apologize publicly. Real Life has given me some time now and finding interesting packages to work on is hard... but I really want to invest it on debian. I've been stupid, please don't let this rude introduction ruin our view of each other. I shouldn't have looked to a single package to estimate you, and obviously I was wrong. By reading your mail, it looks like you're still giving me a chance, so thank you ! Best Regards -- Julien Viard de Galbert <julien@vdg.blogsite.org> http://silicone.homelinux.org/ <julien@silicone.homelinux.org> GPG Key ID: D00E52B6 Published on: hkp://keys.gnupg.net Key Fingerprint: E312 A31D BEC3 74CC C49E 6D69 8B30 6538 D00E 52B6
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