Hey, On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 10:24:54PM +0000, Iain Lane wrote: > […] > I thought derivatives and mentors people might be interested to know > that there's going to be a session about what the workflow for getting > new packages into Ubuntu should look like at UDS on Friday at 10:00 EDT > (14:00 GMT). This happened earlier. As a quick summary of things that are relevant to these lists: - After a quick consultation with developers, Ubuntu will be deprecating REVU. This is rather more immediate than I had anticipated. - We will continue to inform maintainers of new packages that they really ought to be targetting Debian, but we identified two documents that should exist + An Ubuntu document “Why Debian?” that presses the compelling case for contributing packages upstream. We have [0], but I imagine something more + A Debian document “How Debian?” which speaks to upstreams wishing to maintain their own software in Debian. This isn't a packaging guide, but a process one — how to find teams and get reviews, and so on. - Still hope to use mentors, extending it with the concept of derivatives for the rare cases this is needed or, if mentors folk aren't happy with this, then I guess we could run our own instance but this would likely have the same problems as REVU does. Help welcomed, especially with “How Debian?”. Until the derivatives stuff is done, we'll be conducting the few reviews that are necessary informally out of VCSes or on IRC. Cheers, -- Iain Lane [ iain@orangesquash.org.uk ] Debian Developer [ laney@debian.org ] Ubuntu Developer [ laney@ubuntu.com ] PhD student [ ial@cs.nott.ac.uk ]
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