Hello again, I Should have combined this with the previous email. > In any case we can just backport what is available in Debian testing. > If a package has landed there (we will see when ftpmaster will accept > the current package and what upstream will be released at that time) > we can ask whether this is a sensible target for backporting. Sounds good. I guess the best way to tell is to keep an eye on this [1]. > I admit I'm very positively impressed by your energy. You are the > most productive MoM student and you have obviously a lot of fun to > challenge the learning curve with an extreme speed. I like this a > lot! Thanks :) ! I hate giving a bad impression and not getting anything done, so this is great to hear. Once I'm into something, I don't really lose interest nor sustainability. > I'm *very* lazy with life chat techniques. I think most of the time > these drain more time than they give you. I'm fine with appointments > to meet in IRC and I will do my best. When beeing at DebConf I even > have a IRC window open. But I prefer mail for serious information > since its archived and you can seek in it. But if others are fine > with IRC this channel is not restricted to automatic messages at all. Ahh alright. Sometimes a realtime communication can be good for any virtual meetings where lots of communication are to be thrown or anything that doesn't really need a long term archive. Also Andrius: > Great! The upstream should be very grafetul to you for hunting these > problems down. It would be best if they could incorporate your > patches. :). I assume their tests were quickly made and rough - not intended for any test suites. I don't remember if they even use any CI. I doubt it, but it's good that it's all pretty much fixed. > This should not be a problem. You may look around to find someone in > your region via db.debian.org. Other option would be to check the > database each time you have a conference or vacation somewhere. This > is how I got my signatures :) Ahh that's great, thanks! I'll keep an eye on anything that is relatively close once I move out in under a month. Best regards, Shayan Doust [1]: https://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html On 22/07/2019 10:27, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi again, > > On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 01:50:44AM +0100, Shayan Doust wrote: >> Just more of a closing email. >> >>> I backport on request only. >> >> Ahh. That's great to know. I think the upstream developer(s) *might* be >> interested, but it's too early to even tell what release they'd want. > > In any case we can just backport what is available in Debian testing. > If a package has landed there (we will see when ftpmaster will accept > the current package and what upstream will be released at that time) we > can ask whether this is a sensible target for backporting. > >> I've rectified the test binaries by patching. I have excluded taxonomy >> for the sole reason that taxonomy requires the software to download >> roughly 20 GB of compressed data from the internet, and as a result use >> a lot more space when it self decompresses as well as processing power. > > Everything can be included into the next upload once the package in new > was accepted. Its hard to predict when this will be. We have seen > periods of days, weeks and monthes. Waiting for your work to become > effective is some of the patience draining things in Debian sometimes. > >> Seems like with this package completion, I'm on a hunt to find something >> to do now. > > I admit I'm very positively impressed by your energy. You are the most > productive MoM student and you have obviously a lot of fun to challenge > the learning curve with an extreme speed. I like this a lot! > >> Additionally, I have been lurking in the debian med irc with znc and >> haven't seen any activity. Does this irc channel get used, or is it more >> of an informational channel of monitoring med-team commits? > > I'm *very* lazy with life chat techniques. I think most of the time > these drain more time than they give you. I'm fine with appointments > to meet in IRC and I will do my best. When beeing at DebConf I even > have a IRC window open. But I prefer mail for serious information > since its archived and you can seek in it. But if others are fine > with IRC this channel is not restricted to automatic messages at all. > > Thanks again > > Andreas. > >> Best regards, >> Shayan Doust >> >> On 21/07/2019 00:00, Andreas Tille wrote: >>> Hi Shayan, >>> >>> On Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 11:14:24PM +0100, Shayan Doust wrote: >>>> Thank you for the upload! :-) >>> >>> Ahhhhh! Great! >>> >>>> Quick question. Would it be worth the effort backporting, or is that >>>> usually based on factors like demand and interest from users, >>>> developers, etc? >>> >>> I backport on request only. >>> >>>> Additionally, I've managed to fix one of the few tests which I was >>>> initially unable to include within the unit test. It takes a bit of >>>> effort to run valgrind and to try figure out where SIGSEGV was tripped. >>>> My aim is to have maximum functionality testing coverage with this very >>>> soon. >>> >>> Very cool! >>> >>>> This package was hugely beneficial in learning. I've been in touch with >>>> the upstream developer and have learned about their periodic releases, >>>> etc... which means that I can focus on keeping upstream happy by >>>> incorporating future releases within the package. >>>> >>>>> I am amazed by your speed and quality - two packages in twenty days! I >>>>> hope to see you becoming independent Debian developer soon. >>>> >>>> Sadly, I'm right before entering university so I'm still young and >>>> travelling for key signing / etc is not a viable option yet. I won't be >>>> surprised if I was the youngest in the team :-) >>> >>> The younger the better. ;-) >>> >>>> Many thanks to you and Andreas for your efforts, >>>> Shayan Doust >>> >>> I love to support newcomers as best as possible. >>> >>> Kind regards >>> >>> Andreas. >>> >> > > > >
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