How does the Team work?

[Faré]

OK. So how do I start packaging, say, cl-asdf, cl-launch and
common-lisp-controller, with a view on becoming DM?

I have a .deb for cl-launch ready for upload, except that it depends
on cl-asdf 2.000, which hasn't been packaged yet (or has it?).

What should I do between debian's asdf.git and upstream's? Should I
merge them? Should I get write access first, then build a package,
then try to get it approved? Or should I modify the upstream copy and
build a package first, and some DD will pull the alioth version after
my package has been approved?

[ François-René ÐVB Rideau | Reflection&Cybernethics | http://fare.tunes.org ]
Aggression is simply another name for government. Aggression, invasion,
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or the attempt to control. He who attempts to control another is a governor,
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On 12 July 2010 17:10, Christoph Egger <christoph at debian.org> wrote:
> Hi!
>
>    Sorry that there was no response earlier. As you might have noticed
> there's not much going on on the mailing list right now.
>
> Faré <fahree at gmail.com> writes:
>> I'd like cl-asdf 2.002 to be packaged as part of debian. I'm willing
>> to do the job, but I have no access rights. Is there anyone to sponsor
>> me to become a NM?
>
>    Well, that's not really how it works. sponsoring anyone for NM means
> being sure she/he can upload any package without any review or
> suggestions. If you start your work will be uploaded by DDs. That would
> be you preparing a package and sending a mail to the list and people
> with upload rights pick them up.
>
>    If everything goes well you can get the DM status where you can
> upload some specific set of packages you care about on your own. If you
> want to help I'll try to work through asdf and see what I can do
> (although its one of the packages that still freighten me).
>
>> Also, I noticed that the upstream asdf git repository contains a
>> massively out-of-date debian directory. Is debian using git, or
>> something that could be converted to git, so we could merge back the
>> upstream and debian source control repos?
>
>    The pkg-common-lisp team keeps most of its works in git, the tree
> for asdf is at [0]. If you want to work on it in Debian you'll need and
> alioth[1] account and request to join the pkg-common-lisp team. After
> that you'll be able to push into these git trees as well.
>
> Regards
>
>    Christoph
>
> [0] git://git.debian.org/git/pkg-common-lisp/cl-asdf.git
> [1] http://alioth.debian.org
>