Bug#714853: Status of the ITP?
On 05/11/13 16:13, Andy Hawkins wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 04:09:17PM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote:
>> I'm happy to help out but my primary focus is on my VoIP/RTC packages
>
> I thought that was the case, hence why I was keen for Sebastian to take over
> the packaging.
>
>> Andy, did you end up receiving any signatures from any Debian people and
>> would you want to be one of the named maintainers for the package? I
>> would be happy to send an email sponsoring a request for you to be
>> granted upload privileges as a Debian Maintainer (it is half way to
>> becoming Debian Developer)
>> https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMaintainer
>
> No, I haven't done anything as regards getting my key signed or taking the
> first steps to officially joining the Debian project. In reality, I'm
> already way behind just maintining libmusicbrainz itself to be able to also
> take on the job of maintaining the package.
>
>> Although there is a packaging team listed as the maintainer, there also
>> needs to be at least one real person listed as an uploader.
>
> I'd suggest (assuming he's Ok with it) that Sebastian lists himself as an
> uploader on both libcaa and libmb.
That is perfectly OK for me. Sebastian, thanks for offering to help out
> Then maybe I can get my finger out and actually update libmb to work with
> the recent changes to Musicbrainz's web service, and also address the XML
> licensing issue.
Just in case I've given the wrong impression: Debian is a volunteer
organisation. Being a member of the community isn't an obligation (that
is even written in our constitution). I still spend more time on
upstream stuff than any of my packages themselves. I personally feel it
is really helpful to have good developers in the community even if you
can't commit to packaging tasks, just as long as you let people know
what you can and can't commit to.
FYI there is also a mini-debconf in the UK next week:
https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/Miniconf-UK/2013
and it could be a good opportunity to see the fun social side of Debian
and/or get PGP signatures. I won't be there myself unfortunately but I
may be around London again some time in December.
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