Re: RFS: galculator
Hello all:
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 5:30 AM, Marco Rodrigues <gothicx@sapo.pt> wrote:
> Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > Le mardi 10 février 2009 à 20:50 +0000, Marco Rodrigues a écrit :
> >> Josselin Mouette wrote:
> >>> Le dimanche 08 février 2009 à 14:51 +0000, Marco Rodrigues a écrit :
> >>>> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "galculator".
> >>>> galculator - A GTK+ 2.0 based calculator
> >>> Ah, right, I think we were missing very rare packages such as new
> >>> calculators.
Josselin: "galculator" is hardly "new". It was first packaged by
Sebastien Bacher <seb128@debian.org>, and galculator has been
with us in Debian since 19 Feb 2003. And Marco has been very kind
to help keeping this package up-to-date when Sebastien became too
busy.
> >> And this one runs in lpia.. it's a very good one. Could you sponsor
> >> the upload it?
> > Next time, I'll add the <irony> tag…
> :-)
Marco: If no one else has offered yet, I would like to sponsor your
package. I use Galculator on a low-memory Debian armel and like
its speedy startup time. I tend to procrastinate though, so please
remind me in a private e-mail if you don't see the new version
uploaded before Sunday.
> > Listen, we're already lacking manpower to work on core packages, be it
> > GNOME, KDE, GTK+, glibc, Xorg or Mozilla. If you really want to help the
> > project, please try to help us on things that matter instead of trying
> > to add your pet package to the archive.
Josselin: Marco is indeed helping the project by keeping an existing
package up-to-date, and indeed galculator is hardly "his pet package".
Galculator is often-used in low-memory environment. Maybe the only
thing you can "find fault" in Marco is that he shouldn't have Cc'ed his
message from debian-mentors to debian-gtk-gnome, though we do that
all the time on debian-chinese-{gb,big5}, and no one ever complained.
> I try to help, not so much I would like, but it's something. This package is
> already in the archive, so it doesn't matter to update it.
> My Debian work is more about QA stuff, but I try to report some bugs about
> packages.. specially Gnome / GTK related.
> > Thanks for considering,
> Thank you and sorry for wasting your time.
Marco, you did nothing wrong. We Debian developers are often
too busy with jobs and Real Life and trying to keep Debian in
good shape in the same time, and Josselin is indeed one of
main contributors to Debian GNOME and busy with many core
Gtk+/GNOME issues, so I can understand where he is coming
from.
That said, I think it may be best that you keep your "Sponsors
requested" on the debian-mentors mailing list. Don't Cc:
simple sponsors request to other mailing lists unless it is
the norm there, because sometimes it does become distracting.
So, you just need to learn to be patient. Or, from now on,
you one more person that you can "poke" (me). :-)
Cheers,
Anthony Fok
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