Re: Future Developer(hopefully!) seeking sponsorship
On Sat, 26 May 2001 09:13:48 -0400
Chris Danis <screechco@home.com> wrote:
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|>>>>> On Sat, 26 May 2001, "Colin" == Colin Fowler wrote:
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| 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.
Great ! thank you very much =)
|
| 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)
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|If possible, try to get it compiled with the Xinerama support, as there
|will be those in Debian who will want to use it.
|
Ill see If I can borrow my sisters PCI video card and setup Xinerama
when she heads off next week for a holiday
| 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.
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| Colin> Desklaunch A little program to add icons to your desktop
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| 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.
|
Ive updated http://indigo.ie/~fowler/oroborus/ with Sources and Packages
just this second and uploaded - havent tested it yet so it may be totally wrong:)
|Also, what Debian distribution are you running? Developers are usually
|expected to run testing, if not unstable, in order to to build packages.
|
Im running unstable
| 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 !
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|Certainly :)
|
|-chris
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