[pkg-wicd-maint] Forming a Debian WICD Packaging Team

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

Hello Axel,

Is this team going to take care of upstream maintenance too ?
IIRC, there's been no upstream development in some time.


On Tue, 2016-05-24 at 00:27 +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Control: retitle -1 ITA: wicd -- wired and wireless network manager
> Control: owner -1 Debian WICD Packaging Team <pkg-wicd-maint at lists.alioth.debi
> an.org>
> Control: tag -1 + pending
> 
> Hi,
> 
> over the past half year I've seen quite some interest in contributing
> to wicd's packaging, especially with contributions from non-DDs like
> Salvo 'LtWorf' Tomaselli (did an NMU), toogley and just recently Giáp
> Trần.
> 
> But since they're no DDs, they had no commit access to the
> collab-maint project on Alioth: Salvo's NMU has been imported by me,
> toogley published his changes on Github and I synced them from there,
> and Giáp used "git format-patch" and sent the changes to me by e-mail.
> 
> So to allow non-DDs to easier participate (and less relying on me ;-)
> in maintaining Debian's wicd package, I've created a pkg-wicd project
> on Alioth and move wicd's packaging git repository there:
> 
>   https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-wicd/
>   https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-wicd/wicd.git (the web interface
>   still doesn't work, but I was able to push to
>   git+ssh://git.debian.org/git/pkg-wicd/wicd.git)
> 
> To still benefit from occasional contributions from various DDs as
> seen in the past and possible with a collab-maint project, I
> configured the pkg-wicd Alioth project to grant any DD commit access.
> That way non-DDs can easier get commit access while still having all
> advantages of a collab-maint project.
> 
> I'm happy to add anyone to the pkg-wicd group on Alioth who wants to
> help maintaining the wicd package. Either tell me by e-mail (include
> your Alioth user name) or use the web form at
> https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-wicd/.
> 
> I'd be especially happy if those who worked on the wicd package in the
> past would join the team, or at least the mailing list at
> https://alioth.debian.org/mail/?group_id=101007
> 
> Another thing I'd be happy about would be if at least one more DD
> would join the team, so that I can give him or her administrative
> access to the project to reduce the bus-factor. Being listed in
> Uploaders is _no_ requirement for that position. Gianfranco, Ritesh,
> Mattia, Emanuele, anyone? :-)
> 
> 		Regards, Axel
-- 
Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs
Debian - The Universal Operating System
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