Introduction

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 04:31:06PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote:
>On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 02:34:37AM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 02:09:50PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote:
>> >On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 09:46:20PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> >>As for your underlying question - how to start working on this 
>> >>package, based on existing official packaging efforts, here's a 
>> >>smart oneliner I just discovered to day, which generates a new Git 
>> >>repository from all officially archived prior releases of a package 
>> >>(i.e. relevant when the package was not previously maintained in a 
>> >>VCS):
>> >>
>> >>  git-import-dscs --debsnap --pristine-tar --sign-tags mma
>> >
>> >Hi Jonas,
>> >
>> >This works on my local machine. How would I go about creating the 
>> >corresponding git repository corresponding to this?
>> >
>> >   git+ssh://git.debian.org/git/pkg-multimedia/mma.git
>>
>> Since you address me explicitly:
>>
>> Sorry, I will not (at the moment, at least) take time to guide you in 
>> detail on the basics of packaging and using Alioth.  I am involved in 
>> many exciting projects already, and I might help out with your needs 
>> here too, but don't count on it.
>
>> Please read http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia - and especially 
>> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/DevelopPackaging - and if you 
>> still need help then please do seek it more generally, both at this 
>> list (without addressing me in particular) and at other parts of the 
>> larger Debian community.
>
>Thank you. References, as above, are often sufficient guidance.
>I try to hit them first. In this case, I overlooked the
>link to that fine documentation.

Great that it was helpful.  I do notice that you've managed to release 
the code to Alioth now :-)


>I will honor your request to avoid mentioning your name
>specifically, except where appropriate to the context.
>
>I, too, am excited about the quality of both the software
>and the packaging made available through the work of the
>DMT.

Oh, I agree that this team pacakges some _very_ exciting upstream 
projects. I only count this team as one of the exciting things I am 
involved in, however: What I meant to say was that my reason for 
being relatively absent lately in this team has to do with my 
involvement at other areas of Debian:

   * Package Node modules for a "decentral Facebook replacement"
     usable by FreedomBox, and team up with Jérémy Lal on
     maintaining such JavaScript and Node modules and Node itself.
   * Help upstream X2go authors form a Debian packaging team, now
     also starring Reinhard Tartler of Debian Multimedia fame!
     Some of us are meeting in person at a german Skolelinux
     gathering mid february.
   * Hack on CDBS, with help from several new contributors,
     including IOhannes m zmölnig of Debian Multimedia fame!
   * Hack unofficially on calendarserver, trying to get a
     snapshot of v3.0 in usable shape (a customer of mine need 
     group calendaring, which was temporarily dropped in v2.4)
   * Hack unofficially on an ikiwiki metaframework, needed to
     streamline the 20-40 website my girlfriend and I are working
     on - e.g. using Sass to isolate and perfect design patterns
     reusable across multiple webdesigns.
   * Package Ghostscript and related libraries, and move them to
     team maintainance in the recently revitalized Printing team.
   * Explore setting up and optimizing ARM hardware usable for
     FreedomBox - in preparation for joining the embeeded sprint
     late february in Cambridge together with my girlfriend.

Oh.  I didn't plan to write this much.  Just wanted to share my 
enthusiasm with you: I hope you can follow how I find above projects 
exciting to work with :-)


Regards,

  - Jonas

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