Re: Seeking new maintainer(s) for HPLIP and amavisd-new
On Thu, 09 Aug 2007, Gregory Colpart wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 11:11:24PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > [...]
> > The requirements for amavisd-new is a good grasp of perl and email
> > infrastructure, and the usual careful attitude one should have when dealing
> > with packages that are often mission-critical. Upstream is very helpful,
> > active, and friendly.
> >
> > If anyone is interested, please send me your alioth logins.
>
> I use amavisd-new on a lot of mail servers some years ago.
> I'm interested to help to maintain it. I think the first TODOs are
> preparing new packages with new upstream release and working on
> BTS (there are 1 RC-bug and some bugs with patch).
Refer to the messages I just sent to the amavisd-new-debian-devel ML,
please.
Also be very conservative and careful with any patches, no matter where they
came from. With mission-critical stuff like amavisd-new, doing it right is
much more important than anything else. amavisd-new is not a package I
consider "easy" to maintain because of just that.
> My alioth login is 'reg-guest' (note that I'm not DD).
Since I had two DDs join already in the last 24h, and I have no previous
knowledge of your work (sorry about that, this is no fault of yours, it is
just a fact), I will ask that you send an email to amavisd-new-debian-devel
introducing yourself and your experience with amavisd-new and Debian
packaging.
(also please read its archives and subscribe to it if you didn't do it
already)
Then, after you do some work over the mailing-list (with five people
listening to it and with commit access, even if two of them are mostly
inactive and I don't have much time, it won't take long for accepted patches
to hit the tree), we can see about adding write rights to you for the SCM
tree in alioth. Would you be confortable working under these conditions?
I'd suggest that whichever one of the (very welcome!) three new
amavisd-new-debian developers has more time to spend in amavisd-new in the
next few days, and experience with Debian packaging and CVS, clean up the
trunk and prepare 2.4.3-1. After that, regardless of whether you decide to
upload 2.4.3-1 or go straight to the newest upstream, it will be much easier
for you guys to work on it.
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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