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Re: kcm-ufw follow-up



Thanks for this! :)

On Sunday, December 21, 2014 10:26:09 Paul Wise wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 7:21 AM, Shawn Sörbom wrote:
> > I accepted. Now I am wondering, since I will now be doing both upstream
> > and
> > downstream work, what general guidelines should I use for determining when
> > the next release is "ready" for Debian?
> 
> First think about whether the release is ready for people who run the
> software, since they are the primary audience.
> 
> Second think about whether the release is ready for all
> redistributors, not just Debian.
> 
> Further tips for upstream development:
> 
> Debian recommendations for upstreams are here, please also read the
> external advice section.
> 
> https://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamGuide
> 
> You can use check-all-the-things to run various static analysis tools
> (and other checkers) over the codebase:
> 
> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/check-all-the-things.git
> 
> You can use whohas (I recommend the version in git for now) to find
> bugs reported by downstream users, patches created by downstreams,
> workarounds for upstream issues in downstream packaging and so on.
> 
> https://github.com/whohas/whohas/
> 
> I don't have any solution for monitoring mention of the software on
> tech sites, forums and social media but maybe you can use web search
> engines for this. In the past I have found useful patches in places
> like Youtube for example.


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