Re: How are things going?
Christian Perrier wrote:
>
>When Scott decided to lower his involvment in March or April, he
>handed the maintenance to a couple of DD's who, at some moment,
>involved themselves in dpkg maintenance:
>
>-Frank Lichtenheld
>-Guillem Jover
>-Brendan O'Dea
>-myself
>
>Speaking for myself, I was mostly handling the i18n/l10n part which
>essentially consists in dealing with translation updates. Not a very
>big part, indeed, and definitely no code maintenance.
>
>The team auto-organized itself, without much coordination (not a
>criticism, mostly a fact). The most visible part of work has been done
>by Guillem with a few achievments (which he probably can described
>better than myself).
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>There has also been, IIRC, some exchanges with Ian Jackson. Probably
>more could be done here.
OK... Ian, do you have any comments/suggestions to make at this point?
>In short, the manpower is more or less here but probably not enough
>organized. We probably need someone to stand up, act as a team leader
>and drive dpkg development. This is not vital now...but could become
>vital after the release of etch.
>
>1 or 2 more contributors would certainly be welcomed....after we have
>solved this leadership issue.
>
>There is probably a lot more to say, indeed but I wanted to give you my
>own views after something like 2 years lurking on dpkg development.
Great, thanks!
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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
Is there anybody out there?
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