[PKG-Openstack-devel] Cooperation in adding Manila to Debian

[Malihe Asemani]

Hi James,

Thank you for your reply, and great explanation about Manila and issues
between Ubuntu & Debian.

On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 6:42 PM, Andreas Tille <andreas at an3as.eu> wrote:

> Hi James,
>
> please note that I consider myself as a *total* outsider to OpenStack
> and just want to guide Malihe into packaging.  I do not intend to step
> on anybodies feet. :-)
>
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 02:41:53PM +0100, James Page wrote:
> > ...
> > As a result there is no collaboration on the core OpenStack package
> > set - which is a shame, but life is not always full of agreement, so
> > we to live with this situation for now.
>
> Thanks for explaining the situation from your point of view.  This is
> quite helpful for newcomers.
>
> > I'd encourage you to ensure that the work you do on Manila is
> > consumable by any Debian or Ubuntu developer via the source package
> > format - don't assume that whomever is working on the package is
> > working in git.  This makes life a whole lot easier in a world where
> > we don't all use the same VCS.
>
> Good hint.
>
> I try to do my best regarding to your hint about the source code.


> > The work we do in Ubuntu is always consumable back into Debian via the
> > same process (source packages).
>
> Since the final target of our work is an upload of manila to official
> Debian I hope we can fulfill this requirement.  For the purpose of the
> Mentoring of the Month project for Malihe which also has the purpose to
> introduce her into the OpenStack team I consider it practical to adapt
> to the tools which are used inside this team.  Patches, remarks and
> helpful hints (like the one above) for better cooperation are always
> helpful.
>
> Agreed :)


> > Please feel free to reach or to Chuck (zulcss) or myself (jamespage)
> > in #ubuntu-server on Freenode IRC if you have any queries about our
> > packaging of Manila!
>
>
 Indeed if I face to any issue,  I would ask for help from you or Chack on
the mentioned channel. Thank you for cooperation


> As a personal hint to Malihe:  You see that learning Debian packaging is
> only 50% of technical work (maximum ;-)) - there is a lot of stuff to
> learn about how things are organised, where to ask for help, and perhaps
> how to avoid pitfalls. :-)
>
>  Thanks for the hint. Yes, There are lots of things that I should learn...

>From my point of view we should keep on with the original plan to follow
> the workflow in the Debian OpenStack team and once we are about to
> upload a source package (and I agree with James that this is a very
> generic and helpful exchange format) re-check with James and Chuck for
> some additional hints.
>
> Sure.

Best Regards


Kind regards and thanks again to James for the explanation
>
>       Andreas.
>
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