[Pkg-shadow-devel] The team increases

[Christine Spang]

On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 19:46 +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Please welcome Christine Spang who joined us today to bring us more
> (wo)manpower and, for instance, help in bug triage or whatever huge
> task we will have for this important package maintenance.

Hi all! (ou bonjour, car il semble que beaucoup des personnes qui
subscribir =C3=A0 ce projet habitent =C3=A0 la France)

> Christine, I wrote a README about bug triage for the shadow
> package. You'll find it in the trunk branch which you may checkout
> with the following command:
>=20
> svn co svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-shadow/trunk shadow

A preliminary question: when attempting to check out the source, I'm
prompted for a password: do I need to be added to the alioth project to
be able to checkout? I have an alioth account that I also use with
Debian Women; it's [a very obscure] christine-guest.

> The "patch triage" task you will see is related to this : we isolate
> each patch, analyse its purpose and propose it to upstream (namely
> Tomasz Klockzko, who is already subscribed to this list). If Tomasz
> accepts it and applies it to his CVS repository, then the patch is ut
> in the 3xx series. Otherwise, it is put in the 4xx series.
>=20
> This is a running process, so helping in there may not be
> immediate...but try to follow the work just to see what happens.

It's a little daunting to be following such an important package, but
hopefully I'll eventually be able to make useful contributions, which is
awesome. :)

> The curren team members are:
>=20
> myself...:)
> Martin Quinson (fr)
> Nicolas Fran=C3=A7ois (fr)
> Alexander Gattin (uk=3D=3D*Ukraine*)
>=20
> And I also count in Tomasz Klockzko (pl), the upstream author.
>=20
> Welcome on board to you two...

Glad to be here!

--=20
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