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Re: Orphaning my packages: msg#00064

Subject: Re: Orphaning my packages
Martín Ferrari <martin.ferrari@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On 9/14/06, Russ Allbery <rra@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> To get started picking up orphaned packages, I'd say pick one that no
>> one else has injected yet, mention on the mailing list that you're
>> starting to work on it, load it into Subversion, and go for it.  For
>> other general work, look for packages that show up as out of date from
>> watch files, look for bugs that haven't been worked on yet (although I
>> don't think we have many of those), or look for lintian reports.  The
>> latter, though, is sadly a bit out of date at the moment, I believe.

> I've just tried to checkout
> svn+ssh://tincho-guest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/svn/pkg-perl/packages/ to have a
> peek at how things are being done, but svn.debian.org won't let me log
> in... I can ssh in to alioth, but may be svn.d.o only works for DDs?

No, it works for guest accounts as well, but your account authorization
information has to propagate from Alioth to svn.debian.org.  This can take
a day (maybe more?); I had to wait a bit for mine to work originally too.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@xxxxxxxxxx)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>




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