[Pkg-nginx-maintainers] Concerns about NGINX in Debian

[Thomas Ward]

I've joined the Salsa team, and begun taking some of the merge requests 
that're pending to fix the issues with the Lua bug.

I'm not a DD so I can't directly upload until someone who is a DD sends 
a dak command to give me access to upload nginx to ftp-master, however I 
have also gotten some additional things in place (such as fixing d/watch 
so that uscan properly picks up stable release versions from nginx.org 
in the tracker).  This is also on the radar for a 1.20.x update as well 
in the future, it's been requested on the issues on the git.

Getting 1.18.x out and fixed though first will be more important, i'm 
testing the mips64el and s390x that failed to build in the current 
merge, then we'll see if that compiles and is ready for a bugfix release.


Ondrej, do we want to give me upload privs to ftp-master so that I can 
get this pushed out quickly, or do you want me to go via mentors and get 
it sponsored-updated?  (I received my Debian Maintainer status for my 
other packages recently if it matters).


Thomas


On 4/6/22 07:05, Thomas Ward wrote:
> I would be glad to join the team!  I didn't see *how* to join the 
> team, though... no documentation was able to be found on that.
>
> Let me know what I need to do to join the team and help!
>
>
>
> Sent from my Galaxy
>
>
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Ondřej Nový <novy at ondrej.org>
> Date: 4/6/22 03:46 (GMT-05:00)
> To: Thomas Ward <teward at ubuntu.com>
> Cc: Ondřej Nový <onovy at debian.org>, 
> pkg-nginx-maintainers at alioth-lists.debian.net
> Subject: Re: Concerns about NGINX in Debian
>
> Hi Thomas,
>
> Feel free to join the team and help us. New people are always welcome :)
>
> I don't see the point of the Salvaging __team__ package with a 
> "welcome new members" policy.
>
> so 2. 4. 2022 v 6:14 odesílatel Thomas Ward <teward at ubuntu.com> napsal:
>
>     I don't wish to be a nag or anything, however I have some grave
>     concerns with how the NGINX package is being handled in Debian.
>
>     Not only did it take *months* to address the Lua bug that broke
>     the package and threatened to remove the packaging in Testing, the
>     subsequent FTBFS that blocks the -8 upgrade went ignored for 14
>     days before I went checking, and subsequently filed [1] has been
>     unignored for ~18 days according to the tracker.
>
>     I know that Debian nginx team is busy, however this is one of
>     those packages that should PROBABLY not drop off of your radars.
>
>     The last time that the package had issues that went unaddressed
>     for months, I was highly tempted to go the Package Salvage route,
>     and then subsequently involve the MIA team because this package is
>     used by so many and needs to be maintained - not just because
>     downstream users in Ubuntu like it, but because nginx has a
>     SUBSTANTIAL share of the httpd servers being used right now live.
>
>     Is there anything I can do to assist you in the process of keeping
>     an eye on NGINX?  Is there anything that you need to keep
>     maintaining this given that it seems that the actual NGINX team is
>     extraordinarily *small* and potentially unable to maintain the
>     package to the standards it needs?
>
>
>     Thomas
>
>
>
> -- 
> S pozdravem/Best regards
>  Ondřej Nový
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