[Pkg-bazaar-maint] Introduction

[Wouter van Heyst]

On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 04:58:43PM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote:
> Hi fellow Maintainers.

Hi Chris,

> I'm currently the maintainer of bzr-gtk and trac-bzr in Debian. Thanks for
> inviting me to join your team - I think collab maintenance is a great
> idea.

Welcome to the team, by now we've already had some interaction, but I
still wanted to more formally state that, so there :)

> Just as introduction, I'm at the University of Warwick studying Computer
> Science, but outside of term times I live near Cambridge. I'm one of
> Debian's GSoC participants this year under the mentorage of Daniel Baumann
> (panthera), the sponsor of the above packages. I should be at Debconf
> next month.

Cool, look forward to seeing you there. Perhaps we can do a small bazaar
get together?

> Regarding these packages, I'll be setting these up on Alioth later today
> after I get a bit more revision done. I'll change the "Maintainer:"
> field accordingly. Shall I ask Daniel to upload this after I'm done? (I
> need to apply a patch or two as well)

Considering http://packages.qa.debian.org/b/bzr-gtk/news/20070524T123203Z.html
that's all done ;)

> I'm quite curious about the workflow that is currently in place - how one
> pulls in a new upstream version, etc. I see that some of the packages are
> "native" (ie. contain source) too. Can anyone enlighten? :]

As you might've seen in the recent thread, people have different
viewpoints on things, although we seem to converge on just debian/ for
now. 

Wouter van Heyst