How does one join the Debian Perl group? What does it involve? If someone can contact me here or on IRC, I'd love to talk about it. :) Always wanting to be a better team player, -Jay On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 21:16 +0200, gregor herrmann wrote: > On Sat, 19 May 2007 05:18:42 +0200, gregor herrmann wrote: > > > I took the opportunity to check the Maintainer: and Uploaders: fields > > in the packages in our repo. Here's a list of the packages where > > Maintainer: is not set to > > "Debian Perl Group <pkg-perl-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>": > > Sorry for the delay in following up on this issue and thanks for all > replies. I'm trying to summarize them: > > > On Sat, 19 May 2007 10:27:20 +0200, Bart Martens wrote: > > > I suggest that you ask explicit permission from the person in the > > "Maintainer:" field before doing this change. > > Sure, I'll cc the affected persons now. > > > On Mon, 21 May 2007 10:46:50 +0200, Krzysztof Krzy?aniak wrote: > > > >libcompress-raw-zlib-perl > > >Maintainer: Krzysztof Krzyzaniak (eloy) <eloy@debian.org> > > > > > >libdata-serializer-perl > > >Maintainer: Krzysztof Krzyzaniak (eloy) <eloy@debian.org> > > >(not in the archive) > > > > These two I am preparing now. Eventually they will be Debian Perl > > Group packages. > > Alright, thanks, so we have a solution here. > > > On Tue, 22 May 2007 21:18:17 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > On Sat, 19 May 2007, gregor herrmann wrote: > > > I suggest that we: > > > * exchange (or set) the Maintainer: and Uploaders: field for all > > > packages that have the DPG in Uploaders and/or have a member of > > > the > > > DPG as Maintainer: to M: DPG and U: $individuals (that would be > > > most of the packages listed above). > > > > We already had this discussion once. > > Sorry for making a classical "newbie mistake" ;-) > > > I don't agree with this. I > > think it's wise to list someone as maintainer and the team in the > > Uploaders in particular when that someone has been maintaining that > > package long before the team even existed. > > > > I'm perfectly happy with people working on my packages, thus they > > are in the team but in the end, I want to be listed as maintainer > > so that I feel responsible to keep them in a good shape. > > That's perfectly ok for me too, thanks for the clarification! > > > > * move the packages that are maintained by someone else to > > > ./packages/attic because they only lead to confusion (at least > > > on my side ;-)) - i.e. libimager-perl and > > > libtext-vfile-asdata-perl. > > Sure, but the good thing to do is invite those people in the team. > > :-) > > Right ;-) > > > Looking at my original (and checking back with our svn repo) that > leaves us with (sorted by maintainer): > > > libuser-simple-perl > > Maintainer: Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@debian.org> > > > > libnet-lite-ftp-perl > > Maintainer: Alexis Sukrieh <sukria@debian.org> > > Uploaders: Debian Perl Group <pkg-perl-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org> > > > > libnet-amazon-s3-perl > > Maintainer: Alexis Sukrieh <sukria@debian.org> > > Uploaders: Debian Perl Group <pkg-perl-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org> > > (not in the archive) > > > > libxml-libxml-xpathcontext-perl > > Maintainer: Alexis Sukrieh <sukria@debian.org> > > (not in the archive) > > > > liblogger-syslog-perl > > Maintainer: Alexis Sukrieh <sukria@debian.org> > > Uploaders: Debian Perl Group <pkg-perl-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org> > > > > libidna-punycode-perl > > Maintainer: Kjetil Kjernsmo (Work key) <kjetilk@opera.com> > > (not in the archive) > > > > libwordnet-querydata-perl > > Maintainer: Kjetil Kjernsmo (Work key) <kjetilk@opera.com> > > (not in the archive) > > Gunnar, Alexis, Kjetil - could you please comment on the idea of > having the Maintainer field set to the DPG for these packages (and > maybe on the status of the not uploaded package while we're at it > ;-)) > > > libimager-perl > > Maintainer: Jay Bonci <jaybonci@debian.org> > > If I understand #421582 correctly Jay has (1) uploaded a new version > and (2) is "willing to give this package up or co-maint it if > necessary." At the moment there is no Uploader listed; Jay, may I > suggest that your package and you join our Group? (No problem if you > don't like the idea; in that case I'd move the package away in the > repo.) > > > libtext-vfile-asdata-perl > > Maintainer: Kjetil Kjernsmo <kjetil@kjernsmo.net> > > (archive: Maintainer: Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org>) > > I still have no idea what this package is doing in our repository; > looking at the svn log (injected by Kjetil on 2006-12-01) and the > package's ITP/changelog (ITP'd by Neil on 2007-01-04, uploaded on > 2007-01-09) it seems that Kjetil started to package it but Neil > correctly ITP'd it, uploaded it and now maintains it. - Kjetil, Neil, > is this correct? > If so I'll move it to attic/ - unless Neil joins our friendly group > of course ;-) > > Cheers, > gregor >
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