Re: Q to nominees: Rough plan on Debian/Ubuntu collaboration?
Hello,
>I noticed that a half of the nominees mentioned strengthening the
>collaboration between Debian/Ubuntu. Would you mind expand a little
>bit on this, like the rough idea? In particular:
>
>* What problem needs to be addressed regarding Debian/Ubuntu collabration?
>
>* Rough idea on how the identified issue can be addressed?
>
>Generally I find the DDPO page's Ubuntu column quite helpful.
>Sometimes I can see Ubuntu has some patches, but not forwarded
>to Debian. Some of these changes can indeed be merged into Debian,
>and I did this multiple times.
For example some automatic mail sent when an Ubuntu upload is done, some automatic bug opening
when an Ubuntu upload is done, e.g. the submittodebian tool might be done inside Ubuntu internal
repo, with some question if the patch has to be upstreamed or not.
As example Ubuntu usually does gcc/python/boost/ruby/php transitions ahead of Debian, and all the bugfixes
build-fixes patches are easily upstreamable.
>* What is the goal of the proposed collaboration improvement?
> For example, what will be introduced on top of my current experience
> in this regard.
I'm open to smart ideas, I don't have a solution right now, but this doesn't mean we can't find something.
E.g. something I would appreciate is some sort of whatsapp/telegram bot to notify me when a package I have under DDPO
is uploaded in Ubuntu, or a new bug is opened, or a new version is released upstream.
This would make me aware of an issue without having to search for all the emails/spam I receive everyday.
Emails were good like 30 years ago, I think now we can add some additional tooling for new people joining Debian
(and also for old people like me who stopped reading emails some time ago)
G.
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