Subject: Re: Pile of Perl package to give away - msg#00027

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Re: Pile of Perl package to give away

Hi, Am Dienstag, den 27.09.2005, 21:43 -0500 schrieb Carlo Segre: > This and the previous announcement beg the question of what the role of > the Debian-perl group is supposed to be. are we obliged to take in > orphaned perl packages? Well, that was the idea somehow. But we should not take more than we can handle. We already have a very large amount of packages, and not really a lot of active people (which does not include me ATM, I must admit). We could handle more if we had better tools, for example a "adopt-package" tool that just takes the package name and will download the last version from the archive, change the control field, checking for wnpp bugs, add a changelog, inject it into the svn etc. If someone wants to do that, that would be great. Also included in our "mission" could be to throw unused perl packages out of the archive. But this is dangerous, the user that has local apps with that module won't like to see that he suddenly has to use CPAN again. We should have an eye on the "Collaborative maintenance by external contributors" that Andread Barth wrote about in his last message to d-d-announce: Whatever infrastructure they come up with might be helpful to us. Maybe we also should throw a bunch of users out of the alioth project that have never commited anything, just get an overview who is actually interested in the DPG. My 2¢ Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nomeata@xxxxxxxxxx | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: joachimbreitner@xxxxxxxxxxx | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

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Re: Pile of Perl package to give away

Hi, Am Dienstag, den 27.09.2005, 21:43 -0500 schrieb Carlo Segre: > This and the previous announcement beg the question of what the role of > the Debian-perl group is supposed to be. are we obliged to take in > orphaned perl packages? Well, that was the idea somehow. But we should not take more than we can handle. We already have a very large amount of packages, and not really a lot of active people (which does not include me ATM, I must admit). We could handle more if we had better tools, for example a "adopt-package" tool that just takes the package name and will download the last version from the archive, change the control field, checking for wnpp bugs, add a changelog, inject it into the svn etc. If someone wants to do that, that would be great. Also included in our "mission" could be to throw unused perl packages out of the archive. But this is dangerous, the user that has local apps with that module won't like to see that he suddenly has to use CPAN again. We should have an eye on the "Collaborative maintenance by external contributors" that Andread Barth wrote about in his last message to d-d-announce: Whatever infrastructure they come up with might be helpful to us. Maybe we also should throw a bunch of users out of the alioth project that have never commited anything, just get an overview who is actually interested in the DPG. My 2¢ Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nomeata@xxxxxxxxxx | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: joachimbreitner@xxxxxxxxxxx | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part