Re: How are things going?
Guillem Jover wrote:
>On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 23:33:48 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>
>> While I was in Tenerife last week, I met up with Esteban
>> Manchado Velazquez and he told me about his ideas for a testing
>> framework for dpkg. To me as a rank outsider, this sounds like a cool
>> idea, but he was concerned that he hadn't had any responses to his
>> mails.
>
>Yes it is, but right now it's a bit painful to do development on dpkg.
>I don't really like to use experimental for something like it, even if
>I've state in -devel that I've been thinking on branching it. I prefer
>to do incremental changes, deploy them, get testing for few weeks, see
>if something breaks, and upload again. Creating a big delta in
>experimental make me feel unconfortable with something like dpkg.
Yeah, I can understand that... :-)
>Also l10n, documentation and similar are cheap to get in, that's why
>I've not worried much about pushing that into sid. But any other kind
>of changes needs RMs approval and thus takes their time by reviewing
>the patches and the justifications, which I prefer to minimize if
>possible.
Yup, OK.
>> So, I have a couple of questions: Who (if anybody) is working on dpkg
>> at the moment? Is more help needed at the moment?
>
>Christian explained already what's the status right now, who is who
>etc. About needed help, I suppose more help would not harm, but I
>don't think right now is a good moment to evaluate this, I'd say after
>the release we can check what the status is.
Ok, that's fair enough.
>thanks for the interest,
*grin* I was just a little worried things had gone quiet; I've been
watching the list for a while. But you all seem happy enough with
where things are at the moment, and that's cool.
I'd volunteer to help myself, but right now it would just be another
project for me to feel guilty about not working on due to lack of
time... :-(
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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
Is there anybody out there?
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