Re: Bug#591705: maint-guide: Please suggest joining a team
Hi,
NM guide updates was done basically without ML posting until recently
since it was mostly factual fixes and BTS was good enough.
I just added RFA related thing in the last updates. I realize, it is
about time to get more exposure :-)
On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 07:45:41AM +0900, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@2008.43-1.org> writes:
>
> > Please include a link to [1] and suggest to ask joining a packaging team
> > somewhere. Maybe in "1.3 Official Debian Developer" and "1.4 Where to
> > ask for help" or even add an extra section in the first chapter.
>
> [1] <http://wiki.debian.org/Teams#Packagingteams>
>
> A first try at wording:
>
> Debian has various <a>packaging teams</a>. Please consider joining
> those related to your work. Doing so will make it easier for you to
> find sponsors to upload your packages to Debian and having people
> maintaining similar software to ask for help. Working on other
> packages maintained by the team will also be appreciated.
>
> In my opinion having teams also helps to get faster responses in general
> and distribute the workload to more people; a single maintainer might be
> busy with other work, resultfing in longer delays. Maybe this could be
> included somehow as well? I really think most packages should be
> maintained by a team :-)
I basically agree to include contents along what has been suggested.
Questions are:
1. Where do we put this?
2. Is this appropriate level of support to the TEAM thing because there
are many core packages in solo maintainer. (This is Debian and not
Ubuntu.)
3. Can we come up with a bit more neutral and shorter text?
(I like TEAM thing personally but I am not quite sure putting strong
preference on TEAM over SOLO in this document id appropriate or not)
Osamu
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