[DRE-maint] Regarding your comment in my blog (re: Ruby Gems)

[Lucas Nussbaum]

On 09/12/08 at 11:19 -0500, Richard Hurt wrote:
>   - Is there any thought around moving to Git?

I use git for other things, but we haven't reached any of subversion's
limits in pkg-ruby-extras. Note that we maintain a lot of simple
packages, not a few complex packages (where git would be more
appropriate).

>   - Why are we still using mailman and not something more flexible?

I agree with Micah on this one.

>   - How can we make it easier to onboard people and projects?

By being open and providing a simple interface to new contributors.
Changing all our technical infrastructure every 3 months is not going to
help.

> BTW: I am still working on getting Redmine packaged up but it seems  
> like there is not much Ruby action happening on Debian lately (at  
> least there are no SVN commits).  One real reason I haven't been to  
> active lately is that I don't want to get in front of Lenny.  I figure  
> people are too busy trying to get a release out the door to bother  
> them with a new RoR package.  :/

You shouldn't worry about lenny. You could prepare an upload to
experimental, or to unstable, since your package isn't in lenny anyway.

I'm personally just too busy with other things to do much Debian work
currently.
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