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

[Дмитрий Ледков]

Daniel Glassey wrote:
> 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!
> 

Mailing list is perfect for now. I'll look a little bit more at the
tracker and task manager on alioth. Probably will start using it later.

>>> 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.
> 

Using alioth more will certainly be Debian-friendly =D and I think
Ubuntu should improve in that sense, couse we did have some bad
reputation....... *insert flame war here*

> 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.
> 

Yeap. Let's wait until we have packages =D Then we can make the team PPA
and assign upload rights there.

> Regards,
> Daniel

Regards,
Dima.

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