Hi, I'de be interested in helping as well. I am a Debian newbie, but have some experience in Linux from SuSE. I am not a Debian developer, but I'd love to help anyway. :) Regards, Andreas On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 04:33:46PM +0200, Ola Lundqvist wrote: > On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 08:42:44AM -0500, Ardo van Rangelrooij wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I would like to propose to form an Apache (web server) task force to > > maintain the Apache packages currently maintained by Johnie Ingram (netgod) > > (and potentially related packages if the need arises). The current state of > > Apache and the recent > > need to fix at least some of the outstanding bugs led me to the conclusion a > > more active maintenance of these packages is needed. The intend of this > > proposal is not to simply take over the packages (although it might come to > > that), but to help in the maintenance of them. > > This sounds like a good Idea. Yes I'm late in this discussion but I do > not follow debian-devel extremely regular and I missed this thread. :) > > > As the first step I propose to add an Uploaders field to the package (once > > we have a list of people). > > I'd like to help. I have a lot of ideas for how to configure apache > from other packages. Right now I have a special system at work but > it is not very compatible with the apache one. I also maintain wwwconfig-common > that does similar things. What I want is a better system because none of > what I have mentioned works very well. Wwwconfig-common works but it > should not exist at all because apache and the database tools should > provide this functionality. :) > > See bug #112553 for my ideas of how things should be configured. > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=112553&repeatmerged=yes > > Regards, > > // Ola > > > Some of the other things this task force would do are > > > > - writing up guidelines for packaging Apache modules (a kind of policy doc) > > Great idea. Something like the debian-java policy. > > > - migration to Apache 2 (IIRC an ITP for this has already been filed by somebody) > > > > I also propose to set up a mailing list for this. > > Just subscribed. :) > > Regards, > > // Ola > > > Thanks, > > Ardo > > -- > > Ardo van Rangelrooij > > home email: ardo@debian.org > > home page: http://people.debian.org/~ardo > > PGP fp: 3B 1F 21 72 00 5C 3A 73 7F 72 DF D9 90 78 47 F9 > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-request@lists.debian.org > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > > > > -- > --------------------- Ola Lundqvist --------------------------- > / opal@debian.org Bjrnkrrsgatan 5 A.11 \ > | opal@lysator.liu.se 584 36 LINKPING | > | +46 (0)13-17 69 83 +46 (0)70-332 1551 | > | http://www.opal.dhs.org UIN/icq: 4912500 | > \ gpg/f.p.: 7090 A92B 18FE 7994 0C36 4FE4 18A1 B1CF 0FE5 3DD9 / > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > -- GPG Keyid 0x0FCD0EE2 GPG Fingerprint C2FF 6147 0ADB 1674 4096 2339 370F CBDF 0FCD 0EE2 fortune - print a random, hopefully interesting, adage: Save the whales. Collect the whole set.
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