On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 11:37:26 +0000 Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> wrote: > = Ubuntu Ancient Patches Project = > > Summary of current status: > http://dex.alioth.debian.org/ubuntu/ancient-patches/status/ > > The vast majority of these have been reviewed and confirmed to have > been merged or otherwise fixed in Debian. Thanks to David Paleino, > Colin Watson, Nathan Handler and Steve Langasek for their > contributions. Congrats to those involved, thats an incredible start to the project. > = Next Steps = > > I'd like to start compiling ideas for the next Ubuntu DEX project, > once the above tasks have been completed. Here are some ideas: > - Patch sweep: Generate a list of outstanding Ubuntu patches in the > Debian BTS (we have usertags for this) and help to get them all > merged: work with the maintainers, rework patches as needed, make > NMUs where the package is orphaned etc. Is the 'we' here DDs working on ubuntu, or members of DEX (or both, which i suspect is what you mean?). > - New packages: Continue the Utnubu effort to identify packages which > are new in Ubuntu and not in Debian yet, and try to get them into > Debian (file WNPP bugs? upload orphaned packages? find maintainers? > sponsor the Ubuntu maintainer?) If this can help increase the number of sponsors (even if its just for dex related packages) this would be a good thing. thanks, kk > I'd appreciate your thoughts on these and suggestions for other > projects. I would prefer to work on projects which can have a defined > end point, which we can finish and move on, rather than open-ended > projects like establishing new procedures, mentoring, and so on. > Those are important too, but I think at this point there is a lot of > concrete work we could do which will make a bigger difference in the > short term, and help us learn more. > -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group
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