Bug#243938: Existing packages
On Sat, 03 Sep 2005, Micah Anderson wrote:
> If these requirements are too much, and make it not worth you having me
> sponsor the package, I'd probably prefer to just be the maintainer myself,
> but would be very happy to have your contributions/improvements and act as
> co-maintainers!
I dont think I was very clear here, basically the options are:
1. One of you be the package maintainer. Because there can only be one
maintainer it would either have to be one of you, or we setup an alioth
project, with a mailing list and that mailing list is the package
maintainer. We setup a svn repository for the package so everyone can access
it and make changes that all can share.
2. I be the primary maintainer and you can co-maintain it. This would mean
that you would subscribe to the package so you would get bug reports, you
can respond to bug reports, and improve the package, and I participate in
that process and do the uploads. We would have a svn repository for this
scenario as well.
So, the way I see it is if there is one of you who really wants to be the
rkhunter maintainer, and is looking for a package to maintain actively with
debian (perhaps for the purpose of being a stepping stone to becoming a
debian maintainer, as having a package in the archive is a necessary step),
then speak up and say you will be that person and that the requirements for
sponsorship I detailed previously are acceptable. Or, if you just want to
help we can do a co-maintainership.
I'm fine with managing the package, but I want to give you guys the
opportunity to be the package maintainer if you want (especially since you
have done some good work on it already!).
micah
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