On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 02:02:13AM -0500, Toby Knudsen wrote: > Greetings, > > This message caught my attention yesterday: > > - would anyone be interested in adopting this code in Debian? > > I would be willing to give this a try. Keep in mind that I've not been > a Debian maintainer previously and my expectations are based loosely > on the support tickets that were mentioned. > > Myself, I live near Boston, am going to school part-time, and have > only used or worked with Unix and GNU Linux since 1995. I don't > usually say GNU Linux, either. > > The New Maintainer's Guide looks relevant, but let me know if there > are other sources I should read. Let me know your thoughts on this > matter. > > Sincerely, > J. Toby Knudsen > > 617-233-4002 >
Hello, here is the original thread about this: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/02/msg00681.html There is more information about helping with the debian package of git here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/03/msg00505.html Cheers, > cited message: > ----- Forwarded message from Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@...> ----- > > Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 21:18:38 -0600 > ... > Subject: Wanted: maintainer for git's emacs support > > Hi, > > None of the current Debian git maintainers seem to use emacs. This > means git's emacs support[1] does not get as much care as it deserves: > see for example bugs #611936, #611931, #611932, #611933, #611934, > #577834, and #611935. > > The upstream maintainer is very friendly and responsive though he > doesn't seem to have much time for it these days. Users are friendly > and responsive, too. So I wonder: > > - would anyone be interested in adopting this code in Debian? > - if not, should we be shipping it? > > Thoughts welcome. (Actions even more so. :)) > Jonathan > > [1] /usr/share/doc/git/README.emacs > > > ----- End forwarded message ----- ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Josué M. Abarca S. Vos mereces Software Libre. PGP key 4096R/70D8FB2A 2009-06-17 fingerprint = B3ED 4984 F65A 9AE0 6511 DAF4 756B EB4B 70D8 FB2A -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-emacsen-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110223142556.gb2...@zumi.usac.edu.gt
