Asif, On Tuesday, January 6, 2026 1:20:44 PM Mountain Standard Time Boyuan Yang wrote: > Hi, > > 在 2026/1/6 12:14, Md. Asif Hossain 写道: > > Dear Debian Input Method Team, > > > > My name is Asif Hossain, and I am interested in adopting the *ibus-avro > > <https://github.com/sarim/ibus-avro>* package and contributing to its > > ongoing maintenance and development. I have been working with Debian > > packaging and recently prepared and uploaded updates for ibus-avro through > > mentors.debian.net <http://mentors.debian.net>. Through this process, I > > became familiar with the package structure, build system, and existing > > issues, and I would like to continue maintaining it more actively.> > > I am writing to kindly ask if I may: > > * Join the Input Method Team, and > > > > * Be granted access to the repository so that I can help with regular > > maintenance, bug fixes, and future improvements.> > > I am very motivated to contribute consistently and follow Debian and project > > best practices. Thank you very much for your time. > * If you would like to join the Input Method Team, what is your Salsa account? > I did not see your request to join > https://salsa.debian.org/input-method-team/ at > https://salsa.debian.org/groups/input-method-team/-/group_members . You also > did not mention your username in this email thread. > > > * I can grant you with write access to the git repo *after* you prepared a > proper upload that gets accepted into Debian's archive. > > > * You did not mention where is your prepared new packaged version of > ibus-avro. If you are referring to Upload #2 on > https://mentors.debian.net/package/ibus-avro/ , this version has issues that > must be solved first: > > (1) For (input-method-team) team-maintained package, you should keep the > Maintainer: field intact as the Team's name and email address, and add your > name into Uploaders: list instead. Please refer to Debian Policy Section 3.3 > for details. > > (2) You need not repeat your name in the changelog entry. The signature at the > bottom of the changelog entry will contain your name already. > > (3) You will need to close the RFA bug properly in the new changelog entry in > order to adopt this package. To properly do so, please see > https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/#howto-o on what you should write in the > changelog entry. > > > Please notify me after you have these issues solved and prepared another > version on https://mentors.debian.net/package/ibus-avro/ , AND/OR after you > worked out a proper packaging in https://bugs.debian.org/1124319 . Feel free > to let me know if you need further explanation on the issues I raised above. This seems like a reasonable request for us to get your proposed changes into a final state before being granted to the repository. I can work with you off-list to get it in shape and you can re-post to the list once it is ready. The first thing we should address is that debian/changelog should reflect all of the changes made to the debian directory since the last release. You can get some idea of how this is done by looking at previous entries in the changelog. For your current set of changes, it could be something like the following: ibus-avro (1.2+git20230914-3) unstable; urgency=low * Adopt the orphaned package (closes: #1121687). * Add debian/salsa-ci.yml with recommended default values. -- Md. Asif Hossain <md.asifhossainayon@gmail.com> Sat, 06 Dec 2025 23:00:00 +0600 https://salsa.debian.org/Asif/ibus-avro/-/commits/debian%2Flatest? ref_type=heads Once you have that done, send me a direct email and we can discuss the other things you need to do. Each of those things will need to be added to the changelog as well. -- Soren Stoutner soren@debian.org
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