Re: Contacting Debian Rust packaging team
Hi Matthias,
thanks a lot for the quick and informative response. I try to join
your next IRC meeting if possible.
Kind regards
Andreas.
Am Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 01:49:54PM +0100 schrieb Matthias Geiger:
> 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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