[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Create team repository

[Willem van den Akker]

On Sun, 2020-08-30 at 18:38 +0200, Wolfgang Silbermayr wrote:
> On 8/30/20 1:51 PM, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Le 30/08/2020 à 13:33, Willem van den Akker a écrit :
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I would like to push the private shortwave repository (
> > > https://salsa.debian.org/wvdakker/shortwave
> > > ) to a team repository.
> > > 
> > > Can somebody create a team repository and give me write/create
> > > rights
> > > to this repository?
> > > 
> > > David can you give your salsa account name to the list for the
> > > write/create rights?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > My username on salsa: wvdakker
> > > 
> > 
> > we have been trying to package Rust-based applications as part of
> > debcargo-conf.
> > It simplifies a lot the maintenance of these packages.
> > 
> > Would it be possible to use this method instead?
> 
> From what I have seen, shortwave uses meson and wraps the rust build
> inside
> it. It seems this pattern has been embraced by a few gtk-based Rust
> packages,
> such as Fractal, Shortwave and Podcasts.
> 
> It seems as if the meson build does more than just wrapping the rust
> build, so
> I assume it might be better to find a way to keep it like that, and
> modify the
> cargo/rustc calls so they use packages from the debcargo-conf repo.
> 
> I'm also not a totally sure that the rust team is the best fit for
> providing a
> home to these projects, maybe the gnome team is a better place, they
> already
> maintain projects in other languages than C, such as Vala or Python.
> If you
> think the rust team is better suited, you're of course welcome.
> 
> BR, Wolfgang.

Hi,

Still got trouble to get into the IRC debian-rust chatroom.
"Failed to jon the room. It is not possible to join the room now, but
you can retry later."

Does anyone know who is the admin of this room?

/Willem