Bug#365425: starting a debian-flash group WAS: Re: Bug#365425: ITP: haxe -- Web programming languge generating Flash SWF

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 12:18:03PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> [CCing other maintainers doing flash-related stuff and people interested]
> 
> On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 00:25 +0200, Jens Peter Secher wrote:
> 
> > * Package name    : haxe
> 
> I see that you have not filed an ITP for neko, which is not in wnpp or
> in Debian. Do you intend to do so? I had intended to package neko in
> order to package haxe, but have been busy with NM and stuff. It seems
> that there is a reasonable amount of interest in osflash stuff in the
> debian community, but not much interest in debian packages in the
> osflash community. I think the debian interest warrants starting the
> TODO items on this page though:
> 
> http://osflash.org/debian_packaging
> 
> The way I see a pkg-flash project working is similar to pkg-perl - we
> keep the debian directories in SVN, have primary maintainer(s) for each
> package and welcome work by the whole group on all the packages. Here is
> pkg-perl's SVN docs:
> 
> http://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org/subversion.html
> 
> I've just submitted a project registration request at alioth. About the
> mailing list, I would prefer it to be debian-flash@lists.debian.org.
> Until the project gets bigger, I think it can be used for discussion as
> well as in the maintainer address of packages, later on we can use an
> alioth list for the maintainer address.

Please add me to that project. I am definitively interested, altough i am not
sure yet where exactly i can help.

I may be able to even find some real ressources to help on this in around a
year or so, nothing is sure yet though.

Friendly,

Sven Luther