[Collab-maint-devel] Re: GoogleSOC2007 - Collaborative Maintenance System Proposal Draft 1

[Raphael Hertzog]

On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Pavel 'Blaze' Vinogradov wrote:
> 1. Co-maintenance of packages in Debian repository which current maintainer
> lose interest, but we have community which interest in live of this package.
> (For example interest for me binkd -
> http://packages.qa.debian.org/b/binkd.html)

OK.

> 2. Improve Debian mentioning, by giving environment for development and
> testing package, not simply submitting ready for upload package.

"mentioning" ?! You mean "mentoring" ?

OK.

> 3. Packages from derived distribution, which push some patches back for
> inclusion in official repository.

I doubt that they need a special case. They are either co-maintainers like
in 1 or simply provide patches in the BTS.

> 4. Maybe in pkg-* project. But i have very small information about this
> project and will see more closely on it.

Check out http://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org for example.

>  Therefore this project focused on improvement infrastructure for external
> contribution and collaborate maintenance of Debian.
> 
>  I read most material about project evolution and see vary small activity
> last time. But i see that some people use created svn repository for work on
> packages. And i interested what other developers, included you think about
> current purposes of this project?

collab-maint is a project whose goal is to let all DD work together on
many packages. 

Thus many people are maintaining their packages inside this repository.

And collab-maint is also the project to create the infrastructure to make
this work more easy and effective. :)

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog

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