[Pkg-crosswire-devel] Priorities and Launchpad was Re: Questions about future packaging

[Daniel Glassey]

On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 3:55 AM, Jonathan Marsden <jmarsden at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>> 4) Shall we assign and prioritize our packaging activity? Who is going
>> to do what?
>
> It's too early to do that, I suspect.  Getting an updated working sword
> source package based on 1.5.11 into Debian experimental in time for sync
> into Ubuntu Jaunty (i.e. well before 19th Feb 2009) would IMO be a great
> start... but I don't know if we have the tech resources to move that
> fast.  After that, for the apps that depend on the library, whoever is
> interested in working on each one can step up, I would think!

I think the best thing I can do is post to the list (in separate
threads) groups of everything I can think of that needs done as well
as what has been mentioned already. And anyone that wants to take a
task on can sayso.
If it would be useful feel free to use the tracker or task manager on alioth.
And obviously mention anything that I miss over the next few days!

>> 5) Since there a few of us from Ubuntu side, shall we make a launchpad
>> team as well? I know alioth is great and all...... =D
>
> I'd say only if the needs of the two distributions diverge
> significantly; the more we can stay one team the higher chance of
> actually getting something good (and maintainable) into both
> distributions, IMO.

Obviously I'm biased ;) but I think the discussion and source
packaging repo (for whichever DVCS) should be in one place, and I
think alioth is good for that.

But at least one thing a launchpad team or whatever sounds good for is
for a 'crosswire' PPA to distribute backports and 'experimental'
builds. That sounds more native to me than telling people to add a deb
source on alioth.

Regards,
Daniel