Re: what about a unofficial public community repo? (was: Re: qmail and related packages in NEW)
Miriam Ruiz dijo [Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 02:37:16AM +0100]:
> > DDs would be discouraged from participating since they should be
> > supporting packages/etc within Debian instead.
>
> I'm not exactly sure about this. I have quite a lot of packages that I
> made for my own usage but I don't have time or interest in maintaining
> on a permanent basis. I guess that's something that happens to more
> DDs out there. We could upload these packages there as: here you are,
> if it's useful for you it's great, but I don't plan on supporting
> this package more than this. Does it make sense?
I agree with Miry here - I also have my personal repository of
packages I often use (i.e. Drupal modules and Munin plugins for work,
or the acerfand fan controlling daemon for my Acer Aspire One) which
I won't maintain in Debian - Why? In some cases, I don't want to
upload something I don't fully trust, and in some, I just know I would
be a lousy maintainer (i.e. I don't grok php, which is used for every
Drupal module - I just use them and want to be able to track them as
packages).
But, yes, it should not promote the idea that "is NEW-processing
taking too long? Just upload to -unsupported!"
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