Bug#760314: #760314: RFH: zoneminder maintenance in Debian
On Tue, 2014-11-25 at 09:37 -0500, Isaac Connor wrote:
> On 2014-11-24 08:57 PM, Peter Howard wrote:
> > On Mon, 2014-11-24 at 16:45 -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> >> On 2014-11-06, Isaac Connor wrote:
> >>> Our intention as upstream maintainers is to work with all distros to not
> >>> only make zm as good as it can be, but to also minimize the effort on
> >>> the part of distros to package it.
> >> Yes, that's the one thing that made me consider continued
> >> maintenance...
> >>
> >>
> >>> I tend to do my part for debian based distros and have reached out to
> >>> Howard to help ease his burden. I do not feel qualified to take up
> >>> maintainership however.
> >> It doesn't seem like anyone does at this point... *sigh*
> >>
> >> Not sure what channels tend to get the most activity in the zoneminder
> >> community, but it might be good to try and actively reach out.
> >>
> >> Without an active maintainer, it's just lingering on in Debian
> >> unstable. I've thought about doing "one last upload", but then realised
> >> it's probably more honest to leave it in the current unusable state...
> >>
> >>
>
> We can certainly do that, I will arrange to do something like that today.
>
> However, let me be more clear about me... I am willing to do it, I'm
> just going to need some hand holding at the start. I don't want to break
> debian or step on anyone's toes. Perhaps Peter can guide me a bit.
>
> > I'd like to say I've got a bit more time in there to do some stuff, but
> > sadly the record, and reality, says otherwise :-(. Should anyone step
> > up to become the official maintainer I'm happy to have my name bumped
> > off, and occasionally throw some help in.
> >
> >>> In any event, I will monitor and address issues in the debian bug system
> >>> and do my best to make packaging zm as easy as possible.
> > Right now my ZM setup is completely broken (combination of SW and HW
> > probs). I really would like to get it running again, and will probably
> > spend a bit of serious time over Christmas looking at it. If things are
> > still as they are now, I almost certainly *will* push "one last release"
> > then.
> Peter maybe we can do it together to show me the ropes? I would really
> like to get 1.28 in there soon, as 1.26 and 1.27 were both rather poor
> showings on our parts.
OK - how about the following?
Given that ZM is now git hosted, and given I won't be the maintainer in
the near future and the mercurial choice was mine, we should start using
a git repo for the debian-specific work. Vagrant - can you set up a git
repo for ZM and clone from ZM upstream? We can then bring over the
debian directory, apply the recent NMU patches, and make that the basis
for further work.
I'd say we branch from the 1.28 release and then make a _quick_ upload
of that, then work on a "nice" version. Vagrant, if you're around to do
the actual upload, I'll coordinate with Isaac to get him going with the
debian-specific builds.
--
Peter Howard <pjh@northern-ridge.com.au>
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