[Freedombox-discuss] Diaspora becoming a community project

[Nick Daly]

On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
> On 12-08-30 at 07:47am, Nick Daly wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 4:08 AM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
>> >
>> > James asked me in the spring (when I visited New York for a week) if
>> > I wanted to help package Plinth.  I agreed, but have heard nothing
>> > since.
>>
>> What do you need?  If James hasn't provided parameters, I've found
>> that you're pretty free to fill in the details (for better or worse).
>> Getting it *in* to Debian, to get those eyes on it, seems to be what
>> we need at this point.  My sense is that if we can get a copy into
>> Debian, updating that with more featureful branches will be easier.
>
> What I need is someone I can help package it.  Someone committed not
> only to "getting it *in* to Debian" but also *maintaining it in Debian.

If nobody else is interested, I'd be happy to.  I've been poking
around in Plinth just about as long as anybody.  I think I'd have to
go through the DD process, though, and that might take a little while.
 That'd also help me get FreedomBuddy in, and that, too, would be a
good thing.

Nick