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Re: Anything I do with the Rust team?



Wolfgang Silbermayr <wolfgang@silbermayr.at> writes:

> On 8/27/21 7:21 PM, Gard Spreemann wrote:
>> Hi list,
>> 
>> I'm a DD who recently got excited about Rust. I thought I'd offer up my
>> help if the Debian Rust team needs any. Your work so far seems amazing –
>> so much so that developing Rust using only crates from librust-*-dev
>> Debian packages feels quite comfortable, even though as far as I
>> understand that isn't even the intention?
>
> Hi Gard,
>
> I'm happy to read you are exited about Rust, that's a passion I share. For me,
> Rust in Debian was the reason to start my DM application in the first place,
> I've been active in that team for a few years now.
>
> Most of the times, the packaging process is quite smooth, but there are some
> exceptions of course. There are quite a few people being active in the team,
> but we have a shortage few DDs are dedicated to sponsoring package uploads, so
> supporting the few who do so is welcome for sure.

Duly noted. I'll keep this in mind for after I've familiarized myself
with the tools used in the team.

> Most of the coordination happens in the #debian-rust channel on irc.oftc.net
> which is very welcoming and supportive.

OK, I'll drop by some day.

>> Are there any writeups on the Debian Rust tooling I should read? Any big
>> items on the agenda going forward?
>
> We maintain the structure of the packaging for most packages in a git
> repository on salsa [0]. There you find documentation about the procedure and
> team organization in the *.rst files. It is also helpful to take a look at the
> scripts in the `dev` subdirectory which facilitate certain recurring actions.
>
> In terms of big items on the agenda, a few areas of the ecosystem that were
> packaged before the freeze have seen significant churn in upstream since then,
> and we will have to coordinate their uploads and prepare for low impact on
> existing functionality (although I expect we can't completely prevent it from
> happening).

Thanks.


 Best,
 Gard

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