Re: request to join
Hello Sébastien
> [...] There is however
> one task that remains to be done: team-importing the CL-packages that
> were previously maintained by Dimitri Fontaine³.
could you name one or two packages for which you have
already performed the modernisation?
Thank you
Kambiz
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sébastien Villemot" <sebastien@debian.org>
> To: "Sean Whitton" <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>, debian-common-lisp@lists.debian.org
> Sent: Tuesday, 23 February, 2021 19:20:01
> Subject: Re: request to join
> Hi Sean!
>
> Le dimanche 21 février 2021 à 10:52 -0700, Sean Whitton a écrit :
>
>> I've recently got started with CL and I think I might want to package a
>> dependency or two, and I'd like to team-maintain these, if possible.
>> I've submitted a request for access on salsa. Thanks!
>
> Welcome on board! It’s great to have a new team member!
>
> If you did not already read them, here are a few CL-related pages on
> the Debian wiki:
> — Team homepage, with some info on our Git packaging workflow¹
> — User-oriented information²
>
> The packages currently are in reasonably good shape. There is however
> one task that remains to be done: team-importing the CL-packages that
> were previously maintained by Dimitri Fontaine³. All those packages are
> de facto orphaned (except pgloader, the reverse dependency of all of
> them, which is maintained by Christophe Berg, who is however not CL-
> fluent). This takes time, since all packages need to be modernized
> (also adding autopkgtest), so I’m doing this gradually, prioritizing
> those that need to be updated. If you are looking for a first
> contribution to the team, picking one of those could be a possibility.
>
> In any case, don’t hesitate to ask questions, I’ll be happy to help.
>
> Best,
>
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