On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 07:35:35 +0100, Lesley Binks wrote: > > we were discussing removing inactive members of the pkg-perl group on > > Alioth on IRC to get a clearer picture on the number of active members > > and to improve security slightly. > All probably a very good idea but although I have been inactive in > the pkg-perl group I would like to continue to lurk at the moment. > I have a guest account on alioth and would prefer that not to be deleted > in it's entirety because I am also in Debian-Women. It seems the mail (which I've read before, so I'm taking part of the blame) was not entirely clear, sorry for that. What we are thinking about is only terminating the pkg-perl project membership on Alioth (which gives commit access in the group repositories and write permissions in the group $HOME on Alioth), and not any accounts per se or memberships in other projects (which we couldn't anyway); and only unless/until someone shouts. AFAICS on https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-perl/ you're not (yet :)) a project member, so this initiative shouldn't affect you directly. > This is possibly hijacking the thread for my own purposes but maybe > I can find someone who needs a bit of help with something? Hijacking in combination with an offer to help is no problem at all IMO :) > I currently run Debian stable on a Dell M65 but would be prepared to > re-con to load at least testing toward this purpose. I wary of running > unstable on a machine I rely on. So probably a little bit of advice on what > I would and wouldn't be able to achieve under testing? It's not that important which suite someone is actually running; building packages should be done in a chroot anyway, and to a large extent bug triaging can also happen either in a chroot or independently of the currently installed suite. - Maybe running testing is even an advantage for tracking down bugs in Squeeze prior to the release :) Regarding the question how you can help, it of course depends on your area of interest, but there's always enough to do: - fixing bugs, especially RC bugs - doing "regular" packaging work - forwarding bugs/patches upstream - improving our docs or our package descriptions - writing tools that make our work easier - and probably some more Please feel free to come up with any ideas or questions, either here on the list or on IRC (#debian-perl @ OFTC)! Some pointers, just in case you haven't seen them yet: http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianPerlGroup/Welcome http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianPerlGroup http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianPerlGroup/OpenTasks http://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org/ Thanks again for your offer to help! Cheers, gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ -- GPG key IDs: 0x8649AA06, 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, & developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Featuring The Dubliners, The Fureys And Davey Arthur Etc.: Spanish Lady, Paddy Reilly
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