On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 03:05, Olaf Stetzer wrote: > Hello Matt, > > being a debian developer _and_ user myself, I understand your thoughts, > especially when it comes to communication about package status. As a > developer you sometimes need to know the status of other packages _your_ > package depends on (such as e.g. libqt), the same goes for users wanting to > know about the status of package foobar. There is the BTS but this is only > tracking bugs, and is sometimes hard to use (some packages have ~100 > entries there). Since you are offering help I can make a proposal for a > system which could propably fill this communication "gap": I think of some > sort of database, propably a mixture of sourceforge and db.debian.org which > will provide easy access for developers to put in some information which > currently is sitting on hundreds of "private" homepages. An example could be > the X strike force. It would be much easier to browse e.g. Wow, this is wonderful. I'm a Java programmer by trade, but I have other skills. I would be more than happy to learn DocBook and write up documentation for all of this, if that helps. Let me know what is needed. I'll mail you offlist. "I love you guys". Enjoy Matt
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