Hi Nicholas,
Thanks for introducing yourself and welcome to the group (I'm sure an
admin will notice shortly and add your permissions appropriately).
I've never heard of the CPAN packages you are planning to upload, but
if they're useful to you, they're likely to be useful to others, and I
think it will simultaneously be a great boost to Debian as well as the
Perl community.
We are fortunate to have many DDs that can provide a thorough review
of your package and, given your apparently high standards for
packaging, I have no doubts we'll be able to upload your stuff. (As a
sidenote, while being a DD may be currently part of your plan, and is
certainly a good goal to have, I am still not a DD and have been able
to accomplish quite a bit -- 400+ Perl packages currently bear my
name. This group is one that allows many non-DDs to contribute in a
meaningful way, and many of those people do eventually become DDs too)
Cheers,
Jonathan
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 7:26 AM, Nicholas Bamber <nicholas@periapt.co.uk> wrote:
Hi,
I just joined the debian-perl group via alioth under the user name
"periapt-guest". I'm running a perl based website design business and being
part of this group should help with that. I copy below what I put on my
application:
"I have uploaded four perl packages to the mentors site but failed to find
any sponsors. Paul Wise suggested I come here which I am happy to do as it
fits with my long term aims. Those are that I should administer my
production machines largely via the debian packaging mechanism rather than
by compilers and CPAN, since the former handles dependencies and upgrades
much better. As such I really want to end up being a fully fledged Debian
developer. I have read the Debian policy manual, new maintainers guide,
developers reference and certainly those bits I needed to get clean lintian
reports several times over.
My short term goals are summarized by this web page:
http://mentors.debian.net/cgi-bin/sponsor-pkglist?maintainer=nicholas%40periapt.co.uk
My medium term goal is to get the w3c-markup-validator package back on
track. "
Nicholas
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