[Pkg-rust-maintainers] IRC meeting - Wed 22nd July 19:00 UTC

[Geert Stappers]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 10:44:55PM +0200, Fabian Grünbichler wrote:
> > The debian-rust team will be holding an IRC meeting, and we would like
> > to allow as many people with interest to be able to participate. Please
> > leave your vote for a date and time on the framadate site [0] if you
> > want us to find the date that fits for you. Once the date is fixed, it
> > will be announced on the mailing list.
> 
> As discussed in #debian-rust earlier today, the meeting will happen in
> two days, on Wednesday the 22nd July at 19:00 UTC. See below for some
> possible topics. Two additional points we might want to discuss:
> 
> - regular meetings (once a month? bi-monthly?)
> - discussion list separate from pkg-rust-maintainers which gets all the
>   automatic mails
> 
> see you there! :)


Yes.

Would will bring a meeting bot  ( https://duckduckgo.com/?q=debian+irc+meeting+bot )
 
> > The main topic to discuss is how to break out of the situation we
> > currently have with many packages stuck in NEW, and several people being
> > demotivated - members of both the debian-rust as well as the ftpmasters
> > team. A rather good summary of the situation can be found in the
> > archives of this mailinglist [1].
> > 
> > There is a proposal [2] for implementing functionality in debcargo that
> > would allow collapsing many features into a single binary package, which
> > might help in this situation, but there is no consent on whether it's
> > the proper way forward.
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > Wolfgang.
> > 
> > --
> > 
> > [0] https://framadate.org/pkg-rust-july-2020
> > [1] https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/pkg-rust-maintainers/2019-November/008589.html
> > [2] https://salsa.debian.org/rust-team/debcargo-conf/-/issues/17
> 

Groeten
Geert Stappers
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