Re: derivatives front desk status check
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> I wonder if people of other distros, who both have participated in the
> census and feel they have actually *benefited* from it, would like to
> step in and help keeping it running. Still, from this short summary is
> not clear to me which kind of tasks are actually in need of help. Can
> you be more specific?
I mentioned these in another mail.
> If we want to be optimists, we could conclude that no sets of patches
> from derivatives are in need of special treatment for being merged. But
> I seriously doubt that.
>
> Hence, we need to figure out why our calls for targets are not working
> and what could we do about that. Any idea?
I guess we aren't reaching people with a good overview of the set of
patches in our derivatives? For Ubuntu I wonder if we could involve
someone like that, perhaps Jono Bacon (the Ubuntu Community Manager).
> Pretty cool stuff, I think a link from
> http://wiki.debian.org/IRC/debian-meeting to that page, as an example of
> best practices in IRC meeting organizations within a team could be
> beneficial.
Added.
> How about starting with a proposed session "Debian and its Derivatives"
> for http://wiki.debian.org/IRC/debian-meeting to bootstrap the
> derivatives periodic meeting stint? (Sorry, I've no spare energies to
> volunteer to chair that myelf, though.)
Sounds like a good idea. I'm personally unable to work on that and I
am travelling until mid September so I probably won't be able to
participate in it. Like Stefano I have a lot of things to work on
already.
--
bye,
pabs
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