Re: Call for help from KDE Team
On Friday 02 May 2014 11:32:41 Maximiliano Curia wrote:
> ¡Hola Paul!
>
> El 2014-05-02 a las 08:40 +0800, Paul Wise escribió:
> > On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 2:19 AM, Maximiliano Curia wrote:
> > > For quite a while now the KDE team has been severely understaffed. We
> > > maintain a lot of packages, with many different kinds of bugs, but we
> > > don't have enough people to do all the work that needs to be done. We
> > > have tools that help us automate the update to new upstream releases,
> > > but that's just the tip of the iceberg of our work and so we are
> > > writing to invite more people to get involved in the team and help us
> > > get KDE software in Debian into better shape.>
> > Have you invited the Kubuntu team to join you? I'll send a mail to the
> > other derivatives I can find that use KDE.
>
> We've invited the Kubuntu team to merge their efforts with ours and use the
> same packaging vcs. The answer was positive, although the migration is a bit
> too far in the future. They sort of agree that they could migrate from
> launchpad bzr to git.debian.org, but as they are a larger group they
> separate junior and senior developers, requiring a review for each junior
> commit, for which they have a workflow and systems in place that won't be
> directly usable in git.debian.org. so the idea is to keep in sync most of
> our work, and see if we can figure out a way to merge it.
>
> Which translates to some overhead and a larger TODO list than an immediate
> help, but sure, once certain threshold in time invested is reached, both
> Debian and Ubuntu could benefit from it.
>
> Happy hacking,
Sounds like a job for Gerrit. Currently not fully packages for Debian
but I understand there is work being done one it. There is a github
project at https://github.com/dnaeon/gerrit-debian which builds debs.
David
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