[Pkg-samba-maint] SerNet samba4wins packages [Re: [Fwd: Re: samba4wins and debian]]

[Michael Adam]

Hi,

my name is Michael Adam, I am working for the SerNet Samba Team.
We are producing samba4wins packages for Debian and we would like
to contribute these to the official Debian repositories.

I have already created an account (obnox-guest) on alioth and
requested membership in the pkg-samba group (by hitting the
appropriate button and dropping a comment to the admin).
As suggested by Christian Perrier, I do now also mail to this list
concerning this issue. For your reference, I forward the initial
mail conversation with Christian and Bjoern.

Best regards,

Michael Adam


----- Forwarded message from Michael Adam <samba at sernet.de> -----

Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 17:20:12 +0100
From: Michael Adam <samba at sernet.de>
To: Christian Perrier <bubulle at debian.org>
Cc: Bjoern Boschman <bjoern at boschman.de>, samba at SerNet.DE
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: samba4wins and debian] [TT#23106]

Hi, 

yes, we would like to contribute our efforts in creating samba4wins
packages for Debian to the official Debian tree! 

I have signed up to alioth.debian.org (user obnox-guest) and requested
membership in the pkg-samba team. According to your mail,
Christian, all I can do now is wait for someone to react to that
request, right?

Best regards, 

Michael Adam

On Fre, Okt 27, 2006 at 06:50:50 +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> > On 2006-10-27 at 08:47 +0200 Bjoern Boschman sent off:
> > > I'm writing you to ask the sernet team if you are willingly to maintain 
> > > the samba4wins packages for debian the "official" way.
> > > 
> > > See also 
> > > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-samba-maint/2006-October/000807.html
> > > 
> > > It would be great if we might have samba4wins in the official repository 
> > > before etch will be released.
> > 
> > we'll have to discuss this internally. One question ahead: what will have to be
> > done by us? Either one of us becomes a Debian maintainer ... or if we get
> > sponsorship by one of you there is no need to get a maintainer status? With
> > sponsorship it looks like there is not much left to do from our site, right?
> 
> Actually becoming a DD is a process that is not immediate (see the
> Debian web site for details), so in any case, there has to be an
> intermediate step where package sponsoring is involved.
> 
> I think that having SerNet employees being part of the Debian project
> or more involved into it would definitely be a big improvement for
> both parts (Debian because of high skill of expertise coming in and
> SerNet by developing internal knowledge about Debian, and Ubuntu
> indirectly, and being able to develop your services to customers using
> wuch platforms).
> 
> What I would feel interesting would be SerNet people participating
> actively in the pkg-samba-maint team (actually made of Steve Langasek,
> Peter Palfrader, Noèl Köthe, Adam Conrad and myself...plus
> occasionnaly Andrew Bartlett listening to our bugs).
> 
> All of us are longtime users of samba, but all of us have other
> activites in Debian and therefore, the samba-related packages are
> currently in "maintenance" mode --> we are not active enough to dig
> into the bug tracking system and clean it out.....we maintain samba to
> the upstream versions and mostly deal with the most important bugs.
> 
> What I see is the effort of integrating Samb4wins in Debian being done
> in the pkg-samba team by a SerNet person, with one of us sponsoring
> the package to be integrated in Debian.
> 
> I don't think we can make it for Debian etch: that would be a more
> reasonable goal for the next release.
> 
> Joining the team is a matter of creating yoruself an account on
> alioth.debian.org and ask for being a member of the team.
> 
> However, most of us are deeply involved in the Etch release tasks
> right now, so don't expect much reactivity here...:)
> 
> 
> Also, please note that other samba packaging team members might have
> a different advice.

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