Bug#664595: RFH: php5
I'd be delighted to help. I have extensive experience with using the
PHP language and experience with packaging and development. I'm new to
helping with Debian, though, so I might need a bit of guidance as to how
to get started.
Thanks,
Robert
On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:14:21 +0100 =?utf-8?b?T25kxZllaiBTdXLDvQ==?=
<ondrej@debian.org> wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: normal
>
> PHP5 is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is
> especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.
> The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write
> dynamically generated pages quickly.
>
> Using PHP? Loving PHP? Feeling like having too much free time?
>
> I WANT YOU FOR PHP MAINTAINER TEAM
> <contact your nearest recruiting station>
> <or the pkg-php-maint mailing list>
>
> We constantly need help with:
> - triaging and fixing reported bugs in Debian (not bad we only have
> 83 open bugs :)
> - reporting upstream bugs to upstream bugtracker
> - doing upstream SVN archealogy with a toothbrush looking for fixes
> - checking upstream tests and fixing bugs we introduced in our patches
> - helping to prepare security uploads for stable releases
> - helping our reverse dependencies to keep working when major version
> is introduced (recently PHP 5.4)
>
> Please be aware that we are not looking for someone who can
> upload&forget. Packaging PHP can be tedious work and sometimes the
> maintainers burn faster than gasoline.
>
> Ondrej,
> on behalf of the PHP packaging team
>
>
>
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