Re: Contacting Debian Rust packaging team
Am 29.10.24 um 21:51 schrieb Andreas Tille:
Hi,
as your Debian Project Leader I'd like to officially contact all our
teams to learn about potential issues that might affect your work. I
would love to learn how you organise / share your workload. If you do
some regular meetings - be it on IRC, video conference or whatever I'm
interested in joining one of your next meetings.
Yes, we try to do a IRC meet ~ once a month, but haven't done so in
quite some time.
Like previous DPLs, I'm open to any inquiries or requests for
assistance. I personally prefer public discussion whenever possible, as
they can benefit a wider audience. You can find a list of contact
options at the bottom of my page on people.d.o[1].
I prefer being offline when I'm away from my keyboard, so I don't carry
a phone. In urgent situations, I can provide the number of my dumb
phone, though it may not always be within reach. Feel free to ping me
via email if I don't respond promptly to ensure I address your concerns.
Please let me know whether I can do something for you. I'm fine joining
your IRC channel if needed but please invite me in case I should be
informed about some urgent discussion there since I normally do not lurk
on this channel.
I have some specific questions to the rust team.
- Do you feel good when doing your work in rust team?
yes.
- Do you consider the workload of your team equally shared amongst its
members?
I'd argue it's more people working on individual packages / rust crates.
f_g thankfully maintains the toolchain (rustc and cargo) and plugwash
has been keeping the overall stack of crates in shape.
Recently I tried to help a bit with small transitions and reviewing MRs
but I am kinda preoccupied right now with maintaining the rust-gtk stack
and personal life.
- Do you have some strategy to gather new contributors for your team?
Not really, It's more like people join on their own because they want to
package software written in rust. Now we have five active DDs who are
mostly active in the team.
- Can you give some individual estimation how many hours per week you
are working on your tasks in youre team? Does this fit the amount of
time you can really afford for this task?
Depends. I definitely contributed more than 20 h per week before; right
now I try to keep it below 10h/week.
- What is your most used / favourite medium (email, IRC, Matrix, video
conferences, ?) to organise your work?
IRC/mail, though I am not averse to Jitsi Meet.
- I personally do not speak Rust but as far as I heard it belongs to
those programming languages that are featuring their own dedicated
packaging system. How are you dealing with problems that might
occure from this fact?
For most cases this works fine. We carry a lot of patches to keep the
versions of crates to a minimum, and to use the packaged versions of the
C libraries.
We have debcargo which does a lot of heavy lifting in the background but
some papercuts remain.
- Can I do anything for you?
Not from my end.
best,
Matthias Geiger <werdahias>
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