MOTU-and-Debian meeting?

[Stephan Hermann]

Hi,

Am Sunday 05 June 2005 02:08 schrieb Brandon Hale:
> On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 00:10 +0200, Stephan Hermann wrote:
> > I think in times, where everybody knows what email and RSS is, it
> > should be easy to setup a RSS feed from bugzilla/malone.
> >
> > The idea with the different MOTUTeams should be established as well
> > in Debian.
> In some cases it makes a lot of sense to have a regular maintainer
> (or team) for a set of packages in universe, with ties to the Debian
> counterpart. MOTU does a lot of small changes (on packages that we
> might not normally touch) as seen with Python and CXX transition that
> don't benefit from this sort of arrangement, so we need something
> that works in both cases.

Well, first of all, I like the idea of Gentoo, not to work with single 
maintainers anymore, instead working with "herds" aka "Teams".
If there is a way to establish our draft for MOTU to build teams for 
special sections, it should be good for the Debian governance to do it 
the same way, or at least to decide: this DD is your spokesman for lets 
say KDE Stuff or Gnome Stuff or Mono Stuff. This DD has to be the 
communication interface between Debian and Ubuntu. 
But I don't really know, how this can be settled with Debian.

> > And then there is Baz.
>
> We can't really expect everyone to jump head first into Baz.  It's
> getting easier to pick up, but its not trivial from both learning
> curve and infrastructure perspectives.  HCT, bzr, and launchpad arch
> mirroring may change this at some point in the future, but we aren't
> at a point where we can offer something compelling enough to make
> people want to make the leap from SVN.  We currently maintain a large
> chunk of pkg-mono on svn.debian.org, and I can't make a spectacular
> case for using baz (yet).

No we can't, but bazaar was only an example. If there is a way to open 
the development for both sides, where we can share the effords and work 
on the packages, it would be very good. 
Honestly, I don't like to use 2,3,4 different system to upload my 
patches. There must be a way to come to one solution for all to access 
patches and other work in an easy way.

Back to patching,

\sh

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