Hello, I've cleaned up some phrases in the P&P templates, added some "please" here and there, a new question; maybe these cleanups can be handy for others as well. We also lack documentation on debian-vote and debian-project in the list of mailing lists at the bottom. --- nm_pp.txt 2004-09-17 13:07:41.000000000 +0200 +++ nm_pp.txt.enrico 2004-09-15 19:05:37.000000000 +0200 @@ -33,21 +33,25 @@ http://www.washington.edu/pine/overview/legal.html) 5. At http://people.debian.org/~joerg/bad.licenses.tar.bz2 you can - find a tarball of 4 bad licenses. Compare these licenses with the - first nine points of the DFSG and show what changes they need to + find a tarball of 4 bad licenses. Please compare these licenses with the + first nine points of the DFSG and show what changes would be needed to make them DFSG-free. No need to compare word for word, for some - licenses this is an impossible task, but you should spot the + licenses this is an impossible task: just limit yourself in spotting the biggest mistakes. 5a. The GNU Free Documentaion License (FDL) has been heavily discussed - on debian-legal recently. Read + on debian-legal recently. Please read http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/Position_Statement.html and - briefly explain how you feel about the including documents - licensed under the FDL in main and what consequences of this - position might be for Debian. + briefly explain how you feel about including documents + licensed under the FDL in main and what might be the consequences of this + position for Debian. 6. Are there any sections of the DFSG or Social Contract that you - might like to see changed? If so, why? + might like to see changed? If so, which ones, and why? + + 7. What is your current agenda with regards to Debian, and how does it + fit with the Social Contract? + For the answer to the next two questions you need to sign the email. Please dont forget that or I cant accept the answer. @@ -66,7 +70,7 @@ 7. What are Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs) and when would you do an NMU? Please list the usual procedure for a NMU. - 8. Tell me 3 different methods to close a bug in the BTS, the difference + 8. Please tell me 3 different methods to close a bug in the BTS, the difference between them, and when to use which method. 9. Each bugreport has a severity and optionally one or more tags. What's @@ -87,7 +91,7 @@ 14. You've just heard about this great program and would like to package it, what are your next steps? -15. How do you check a package before upload? Please explain to me why +15. How do you check a package before the upload? Please explain why and how you perform the checks. 16. What does version 3.4-2.1 mean? What Debian control file would you @@ -119,8 +125,8 @@ other package. How would you keep track of the development of other packages, even if you are not the maintainer? -24. Should you happily sign another developer's GPG key? If not - please, explain me the checks you will make before signing it. +24. Should you happily sign another developer's GPG key? If not, + please explain me the checks you will make before signing it. 25. Do you know how to create a revocation certificate for your GPG key? Do you have one? Why can it be meaningful to set a key expiration date? @@ -156,23 +162,25 @@ Quality Assurance group. A word on mailing lists: there are quite a lot of Debian mailing lists -now and packaging-related packages, and I'd just like to check with +now, and of packaging-related packages, and I'd just like to check with you whether you know about the key ones. debian-announce: Major public announcements debian-devel-announce: Major announcements to the developer community These two lists are must-subscribes. Everything else is optional. I -abbreviate 'debian-' to '-' from now on! +abbreviate 'debian-' to '-' from now on. -security-announce: security updates to stable -private: you'll be subscribed automatically when your new-maintainer - application is accepted; sensitive discussions, flamewars - etc. You can unsubscribe if you wish. + application is accepted; sensitive discussions. You can + unsubscribe if you wish. -devel: general mailing list for developer issues -policy: where possible changes to debian-policy are discussed -mentors: helping newbie Developers. +TODO: -vote? +TODO: -project? There are many others; check the mailing list page on the web site for details. @@ -228,7 +236,7 @@ errors. You should never upload a package which is not checked by one of these tools. -Finally talk about some important websites: +Finally, some important web links: http://www.debian.org/devel/ The Developer's Corner. Contains links and on-line versions of the stuff I mentioned before. Ciao, Enrico -- GPG key: 1024D/797EBFAB 2000-12-05 Enrico Zini <enrico@enricozini.org>
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