On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 09:37:56PM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote:
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 8:18 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 05:35:57PM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote:On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 23:19:19 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:Seems you are interested, then. Great!Yes.You probably requested to join the ghostscript project. Confusingly that's not relevant: ghostscript git is hosted in the collab-maint project. Please request membership of that (if you are not member already - I do not rmember if DMs are automagically member there), and mention as explanation that you need it to work on the ghostscript package.OK, so you are saying that if I push my changes to git on collab-maint you will sponsor an upload? Should I add dm-upload-allowed?No, that is not what I said.I am interested in working together with you for the next years on this.Are you interested in long-term maintaining ghostscript?I am willing to help support the stable version with these changes, and I will help out where I can with whatever goes into unstable/testing in the future. I can't speak to retaining a long-term interest, but I do want a secure version of ghostscript on my systems, so I will want to work on security support for the foreseeable future.
Great.Perhaps that is what you meant all along. Sorry - I just read something very different and potentially weaker from the term "sponsoring".
Please clearly explain what you want me to do. If you don't want me to push my changes to your git repo, and you won't sponsor an nmu, and you won't patch it on your own, then what can be done to fix the problem?
Please do push your changes and prepare a release for unstable. That release will not be an NMU, though, but a real release by our team, including you!
But beware of Mouritz' warning: Your change may break existing legitimate uses of ghostscript! And here it is your call, I won't help much there: I do not feel confident doing this change, you do. So you figure it out. Ok?
I will help you get comfortable with the git repository and the packaging style (CDBS, source 3.0 (quit) and git-buildpackage is used). You then decide what patches to add targeted Squeeze, and deal with any regressions.
I then help release the changes, but you are expected to follow up on it.
Ok? - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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