On 18/12/08 at 17:45 +0000, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: > Since I am not (yet) a DD and the remaining RC bugs for lenny are > largely beyond me - I have been keeping an eye on the list - I'm looking > for ways to contribute that aren't packaging. > > It occurs to me that the NEW queue is pretty static for large periods of > time (and in the middle of a freeze, this is pretty understandable). Not > being a DD I don't, of course, expect to just be let loose on the queue, > but I understand the checks are time-consuming. Would it help you if I > performed checks on packages as much as I can do, and report back to > some nominated DD? > > What I'm after at the moment is to understand what gets more subtle > checks, beyond the obvious, to make sure I'm not stretching myself too > far. If this is the wrong place to ask such a thing, please feel free to > redirect me. > > Of course, if you have suggestions on other contributions I can make, do > say so. I have a slightly vested interest in NEW since I have some > packages in there :-) There was a thread about that just a few weeks ago. Start with http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/12/msg00112.html . -- | Lucas Nussbaum | lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: lucas@nussbaum.fr GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F |
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