Subject: Re: GRUB 2 RFH

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 11:53:54AM +0000, Martin Naughton wrote:
>                 Do you still need help. Me and another guy are interested
> in helping. Can you indicate if you still need help. We are not DD yet but
> we are learning. We can help with the testing of grub and fix bugs while
> you can develop the application. If not help is needed can the ticket be
> closed?

GRUB package maintenance in Debian still certainly needs help; while
we've generally managed to keep one primary maintainer (I came along
well after this RFH was initially filed, and have been the most active
on the team for the last couple of years), Debian really ought to be
able to manage a team with a higher bus factor for its principal boot
loader.  We suffered from that this summer when I had some temporary
motivation problems; if another developer had been sufficiently active
and able to step in it's possible that we'd be shipping wheezy with GRUB
2.00 rather than 1.99.

You can certainly help out with testing and fixing individual bugs
without having to ask in advance (as long as you don't actually close
bugs without asking) - just mail the BTS as appropriate.  I do think we
need more DDs involved, though.

Jonathan is right that we need some kind of wiki documentation here.
I'll see if I can carve out some time soon to write up a skeleton of
such a thing ...

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]