[Pkg-awstats-devel] awstats on mentors.

[Sergey B Kirpichev]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 02:15:34PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> It seems from this conversation that you've prepared an updated awstats 
> package for Debian and delivered it to mentors.debian.net.
 
right

> (it might be that some package maintainers use mentors.debian.net for 
> their specific packages, but that is an exception).

I'm using one for sponsored uploads of my own packages from time
to time :-)

> Welcome aboard! Please subscribe to our mailinglist (if you haven't
> done so already): 

Subscribed, so don't cc/bcc

> Fundamental logic is to only package mechanisms that we intend to 
> support, and only mechanisms that does not get in the way of someone 
> wanting to do more advances stuff themselves.
> 
> This is why some scripts are packaged only as example files, and some 
> configuration is only described in README.Debian.
> 
> Hmm. Apart from that we don't really have any defined rules yet. I do 
> suggest that we adopt a common hinting style from other teams: Leave the 
> "suite" as "UNRELEASED" (as is the default when using debchange) if we 
> feel the package is not ready for release.

Ok. It's clean policy, though a simple one.

* me bookmarking this thread for reference *
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-awstats-devel/2009-February/000450.html

> Are you familiar with Subversion (used currently for the collaborative 
> package maintainance)?

I'm more familar with Git.  

> 2) Request membership of our team at
>     http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-awstats/ 

knock knock..

> You can then apply above mentioned patches of yours yourself through 
> Subversion at svn+ssh://<your_account>@svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-awstats

Will wait for access to repo.