[Pkg-samba-maint] DD wants to join Samba team

[Mathieu Parent]

Le jeu. 5 sept. 2019 à 02:10, Matt Grant <matt at mattgrant.net.nz> a écrit :
>
> Hi Mathieu!

Hi Matt!

Sorry for my late reply.

> May I please join the Samba Team?

This is great to have some help! You are welcome in the team, but I
won't give commit access yet, sorry (see below).

> I am a Debian Developer since early 2000s, and I am currently working a
> lot with the Samba packaging for local usage and for use at work.
> Currently working with the Debian packaging you have in git for samba,
> talloc, tevent, tdb and ldb for this, and intend to package for 4.11
> once it is out for local use.

I've started to work on the samba deps (talloc, tdb, tevent done; ldb
waiting in NEW) for 4.11. I'll work on samba 4.11 once ldb passes NEW.

> Also have a few packaging fixes in my own mag branch for the above
> packages so that packages build for buster.  This is mostly removing
> __pycache__ dirs, and fixes for cleaning symbol files  in samba debian
> dir, and support for librados2 so that dh_shlibs suceeds when packaging
> samba.

You can propose those changes with MRs in salsa.

I hope to do a 4.11 for buster-backport, Your fixes in this direction
will help too.

> Thought you may be interested in getting this material included to save
> you some work.  Please let me know how you would like me to publish my
> git trees, so that merges can be done.  Quite used to github.org, but
> Debian Gitlab a new thing for me.

The workflow is similar.

> My DD email at debian.org is grantma at debian.org

Please do those MR first, samba is a complex beast and I prefer to
keep control over what is merged for a few months.

Also please note that the most time-consuming job is bug triagging
(reproducing issues, forwarding upstream, bisecting, ...). It would be
great if you help in this area.

Moreover, we have reproducibility issues to fix (also time-consuming).

> Thank you so much!

Thanks to you!

> Best Regards,
>
> Matt Grant

Regards

Mathieu Parent