[pkg-kolab] introducing me

[Mathieu Parent]

2011/11/8 Thomas Koch <thomas at koch.ro>:
> Hi,

Hi Thomas,

> I'm starting to learn about Kolab and will start writing my bachelor thesis
> about calendaring formats and protocols in relation to REST. Since I'm a
> Debian maintainer (java stuff mainly) I thought I start by looking in the
> Debian packaging.

Great. Welcome!

> Have you thought about moving the packaging to GIT? I could do the migration,

I'm in favor of moving to Git. There are several ways to do it:
- create the upstream branch using upstream git as remote (aka: keep
upstream commit ids)
- create the upstream branch using upstream tarballs

The first solution is better for continuous merge, but it increase the
commit number of our repo.

I prefer solution 1. What other team members think?

Can you join the pkg-kolab team on alioth? You will have the rights to
create git repositories (please import the svn history in the debian
branch).

> if you like. If you'd like, I could also provide a patch to use some debhelper
> magic to shorten the debian/rules considerably.

This is a good first thing to do.

There is also some bug triagging to do (see [1]). Most important one
is probably #647221(kolab-cyrus-common Needs to be build from the
standard Cyrus source package)

Regards

Mathieu

[1]: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=maint&data=pkg-kolab-devel%40lists.alioth.debian.org&archive=no&raw=yes&bug-rev=yes&pend-exc=fixed&pend-exc=done