Re: Fwd: Wanted: maintainer for git's emacs support
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 02:02:13AM -0500, Toby Knudsen wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> This message caught my attention yesterday:
> > - would anyone be interested in adopting this code in Debian?
>
> I would be willing to give this a try. Keep in mind that I've not been
> a Debian maintainer previously and my expectations are based loosely
> on the support tickets that were mentioned.
>
> Myself, I live near Boston, am going to school part-time, and have
> only used or worked with Unix and GNU Linux since 1995. I don't
> usually say GNU Linux, either.
>
> The New Maintainer's Guide looks relevant, but let me know if there
> are other sources I should read. Let me know your thoughts on this
> matter.
>
> Sincerely,
> J. Toby Knudsen
>
> 617-233-4002
>
Hello, here is the original thread about this:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/02/msg00681.html
There is more information about helping with the debian package of git
here:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/03/msg00505.html
Cheers,
> cited message:
> ----- Forwarded message from Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@...> -----
>
> Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 21:18:38 -0600
> ...
> Subject: Wanted: maintainer for git's emacs support
>
> Hi,
>
> None of the current Debian git maintainers seem to use emacs. This
> means git's emacs support[1] does not get as much care as it deserves:
> see for example bugs #611936, #611931, #611932, #611933, #611934,
> #577834, and #611935.
>
> The upstream maintainer is very friendly and responsive though he
> doesn't seem to have much time for it these days. Users are friendly
> and responsive, too. So I wonder:
>
> - would anyone be interested in adopting this code in Debian?
> - if not, should we be shipping it?
>
> Thoughts welcome. (Actions even more so. :))
> Jonathan
>
> [1] /usr/share/doc/git/README.emacs
>
>
> ----- End forwarded message -----
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