[Pkg-ruby-extras-maintainers] r703 - in tools/ruby-pkg-tools/tags: . 0.12 0.12/debian

[Paul van Tilburg]

On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 03:35:05PM +0200, Rudi Cilibrasi wrote:
> Sorry I think I must have misunderstood the instructions on the
> webpage; I have not actually ever uploaded anything anywhere other
> than my own private repos at cilibrar.com and have just started trying
> to maintain/increment the Debian version numbers so probably will make
> some silly mistakes until I get the hang of it

That is no problem. The team is a good place to learn. :)

> Was I supposed to do
> the upload somewhere before tagging? I thought I had no upload privs
> on Debian until I became an official developer?  Anyhow please let me
> know what command I should have run before tagging and I can try to
> get it right next time.  Or should I just let you (the uploader
> right?) tag it? Best regards,

Yes, once a package is ready is either:
- Uploaded directly if a Debian maintainer has prepared it, or
- mentioned to a Debian maintainer team member so he/she can upload it.

Note that every package has one person (noted in the Maintainer field)
that is considered to be 'responsible' for the package. 

After the upload is done, a tag wil be made with two purposes:
- Notify the rest of the team a version has been uploaded of a package,
- create an tree in SVN that can be diff'ed later.

In the case of ruby-pkg-tools we don't upload a new version if only one
team member has been added.  Normally we wait a bit longer and
accumulate more changes.  Only if it takes really long we'll upload it
with this single-line change.

I hope it is clear for you know.  BTW if the webpage is unclear in
certain areas, please feel free to adapt/improve it.

Kind regards,

Paul

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