Re: Future Developer(hopefully!) seeking sponsorship
>>>>> On Sat, 26 May 2001, "Colin" == Colin Fowler wrote:
Colin> Hi all, well as the subject line says I'm interested in
Colin> maintaining some Debian Packages and have signed up at
Colin> http://www.internatif.org/bortzmeyer/debian/sponsor/. Now
Colin> unfortunately I dont know any other Debian Developers so I hope
Colin> this is the right place to ask for assistance.
I'm interested in sponsoring you. And yes, this is a good place to ask for
assistance.
Colin> Basically I have packaged the following and would love to maintain
Colin> then. i use these programs everyday myself.
Colin> Oroborus windowmanager - A very liteweight wm - no frills like
Colin> setting background etc. themeable, and thats about it - all it
Colin> does is handle windows. everything else is handled by whatever
Colin> panels, taskmanagers, icon handlers you chose to use yourself.
Colin> Its gnome compliant and has Xinerama support (My package doesnt
Colin> support Xinerama as I dont have a Xinerama setup)
If possible, try to get it compiled with the Xinerama support, as there
will be those in Debian who will want to use it.
Colin> Keylaunch - Allows you to bind keys to launch programs in X. i.e
Colin> alt-return for an Xterm ctrl-alt-n for netscape etc. Very handy :)
Colin> Deskmenu A tiny gtk root menu that allows you to launch programs,
Colin> select tasks or quit X.
Colin> Desklaunch A little program to add icons to your desktop
Colin> All of these sources are available from
Colin> http://www.kensden.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Oroborus/download.htm.
Colin> Ive made up packages of all of these and they are available at
Colin> http://indigo.ie/~fowler/oroborus/. none contain manpages because
Colin> the original sources came with none and I haven't written them
Colin> yet.
No manpages is fine for now. However, you should set up that subdirectory
of your homepage to be apt-able, so that one can add it to their
sources.list. If you have apt version 0.5.0 or above, install the
apt-utils package and read the apt-ftparchive manpage; or, read the
manpages for dpkg-scanpackages and dpkg-scansources from the dpkg-dev
package. Note that for these two, the override file they want can just be
/dev/null. And if you need help doing this, feel free to ask.
Also, what Debian distribution are you running? Developers are usually
expected to run testing, if not unstable, in order to to build packages.
Colin> If anyone is interested in helping me in my quest to become a
Colin> Debian developer and give back to a project that I love please
Colin> contact me !
Certainly :)
-chris
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