[Pkg-opennebula-devel] Contribute to OpenNebula packaging

[Martin Steigerwald]

Hi Damien,  Jaime, Ignace, Łukasz, hi OpenNebula debian packaging team!

We are currently evaluating OpenNebula. While doing so I found and reported 
some bugs, sometimes with suggestions on how to fix them.

I am currently testing 3.4.1 packages and found a missing dependency¹.

Also I am interested in OpenNebula 3.6 packages from Debian and am a bit 
hesitant to use the all in one upstream packages.

Thus I'd like to help.

I have some packaging experience with creating backports² and creating some 
Debian packages from scratch³, but I am not a official Debian maintainer or 
developer yet. I am still learning lots of packaging stuff and did not yet 
package any Ruby stuff, so I might ask stuff here ;)

Damien has welcomed my offer.

I understand that any OpenNebula 3.6 efforts likely have to go to experimental. 
Thus I think a branch for experimental would be good. What do you think? Since 
I am still learning git, I ask here for advice on how to best to that. I do 
not like to mess up the repo ;)

For now I think I will fix that dependency and try out initial 3.6 steps 
locally.


I make no promise on long term commitment - we are currently still evaluating 
OpenNebula. But I like to contribute right now as I manage to take time for 
it. During OpenNebula evaluation the chances for that are high ;)


[1] http://bugs.debian.org/682670

[2] http://people.teamix.net/~ms/debian/

[3] http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=ms%40teamix.de

Thanks,
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Martin Steigerwald - teamix GmbH - http://www.teamix.de
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