[Pkg-electronics-devel] Re: pkg-electronics on alioth

[Wesley J. Landaker]

On Wednesday 18 April 2007 19:59, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> Next is probably to work out a policy of some sort for the maintainers
> and uploads fields. For debian-hams we list the debian-hams list as the
> Maintainer, and all of us as uploaders (4-5 people). Looks like eg the
> pkg-perl team are doing the same.
>
> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianHams has some info.
>
> I'm not sure whether it's better to list all team members in the
> Uploaders field initially, or let people add themselves when they make
> an upload.

Looks reasonable. We can probably make a similar page for electronics once 
we have something to say. Perhaps listing some related orphaned or 
prospective packages at least.

I don't think it hurts either way--add everyone all at once, or just add 
themselves when there is an upload. I think it might be better just have 
people add themselves when they make an upload, just to avoid unneeded 
churn, and to avoid e.g. having my name in the uploaders field on a package 
I might not even know anything about. ;)

> I requested a mailing list pkg-electronics-devel for our project which
> should be the address for the maintainer field I think.

Thanks for getting that set up. We can do further discussion over there.

> Also need to publicise the existence of this project to some other
> likely members. I might make an initial upload of something first just
> to get things under way. (geda-* need an update so that's a good
> candidate.)

Sounds good. I would like to see about resurrecting a few packages like 
electric and ivi, which are both Java-based now, but I have not had the 
time or energy to tackle them by myself. For some of these, they'd be 
in-work a lot, so I'd like first like to get Subversion going on Alioth... 
I notice by default we have CVS but no SVN. (I'm not sure how to change 
that or if the alioth admins have to do it.)

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