Re: New contributor experience

2025-05-30 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 30 May 2025 13:28:26 -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote: >You can also edit your general notification settings, but if you are a Debian >Developer (and thus a member of the Salsa Debian team) that would mean you >would receive notifications for every package under the Debian namespace (as >wel

Re: New contributor experience

2025-05-30 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 30 May 2025 13:28:26 -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote: On Friday, May 30, 2025 1:20:07 PM Mountain Standard Time gregor herrmann wrote: I'm no salsa expert but I don't think this is correct: I'm pretty sure I never went to all 4000 pkg-perl repos and messed with notification settings in each

Bug#1106873: ITP: proftpd-mod-proxy-protocol -- Handle protocols which are used by proxies, e.g. haproxy

2025-05-30 Thread Hilmar Preusse
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Hilmar Preuße X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: proftpd-mod-proxy-protocol Version : 0.6 Upstream Contact: TJ Saunders * URL : https://github.com/Castaglia/proftpd-mod_proxy_protocol/ * License

Re: New contributor experience

2025-05-30 Thread Soren Stoutner
On Friday, May 30, 2025 1:20:07 PM Mountain Standard Time gregor herrmann wrote: > On Fri, 30 May 2025 10:46:04 -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote: > >By default, Salsa does not notify anyone of MRs. A package maintainer needs > >to go to each Salsa repository and change their notification settings if

Re: New contributor experience

2025-05-30 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 30 May 2025 10:46:04 -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote: By default, Salsa does not notify anyone of MRs. A package maintainer needs to go to each Salsa repository and change their notification settings if they want to receive notifications about MRs. I'm no salsa expert but I don't think

Re: Question regarding Trixie and SFML

2025-05-30 Thread Simon McVittie
On Fri, 30 May 2025 at 20:15:47 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: If the libraries are not backwards compatible, you might want to talk to the Debian Games Team (pkg-games-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org) whether they plan to package the 3.0 series independently from the 2.x series in Debian 14/forky. B

Re: New contributor experience

2025-05-30 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Soren Stoutner (2025-05-30 19:46:04) > On Friday, May 30, 2025 8:03:40 AM Mountain Standard Time Joachim Zobel wrote: > > Hi. > > > > I just wanted to add that there is also an emotional aspect to this. I > > offered help and was ignored. So as a result I feel rejected with a > > general "

Re: Question regarding Trixie and SFML

2025-05-30 Thread First Name
Thanks for the info. On Fri, May 30, 2025, 2:57 PM Soren Stoutner wrote: > On Friday, May 30, 2025 11:15:47 AM Mountain Standard Time Marc Haber > wrote: > > On Fri, May 30, 2025 at 01:43:25PM -0400, First Name wrote: > > >I am wondering if in Debian Trixie, there would be separate packages for

Re: Question regarding Trixie and SFML

2025-05-30 Thread Soren Stoutner
On Friday, May 30, 2025 11:15:47 AM Mountain Standard Time Marc Haber wrote: > On Fri, May 30, 2025 at 01:43:25PM -0400, First Name wrote: > >I am wondering if in Debian Trixie, there would be separate packages for > >the SFML library 2.0 series and 3.0 series. The 3.0 series is not > >available ye

Re: Question regarding Trixie and SFML

2025-05-30 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, May 30, 2025 at 01:43:25PM -0400, First Name wrote: I am wondering if in Debian Trixie, there would be separate packages for the SFML library 2.0 series and 3.0 series. The 3.0 series is not available yet in Debian 12, however, when it does come available, I would want the 2.0 series to s

Fwd: Question regarding Trixie and SFML

2025-05-30 Thread First Name
-- Forwarded message - From: First Name <3dx...@gmail.com> Date: Fri, May 30, 2025 at 1:39 PM Subject: Question regarding Trixie and SFML To: Hello, I am wondering if in Debian Trixie, there would be separate packages for the SFML library 2.0 series and 3.0 series. The 3.0 series

Re: Re: New contributor experience

2025-05-30 Thread Antoine Le Gonidec
> What should you do in that situation where you have a no-response MR? I second the other e-mails suggesting to send a bug report in addition to the merge request, or answer to the existing bug report to point to the merge request. For the packages I maintain, I do not get notifications about ac

Re: New contributor experience

2025-05-30 Thread Soren Stoutner
On Friday, May 30, 2025 8:03:40 AM Mountain Standard Time Joachim Zobel wrote: > Hi. > > I just wanted to add that there is also an emotional aspect to this. I > offered help and was ignored. So as a result I feel rejected with a > general "if they don't want me they can get on without me" shrug.

Re: New contributor experience

2025-05-30 Thread Milan Kupcevic
On 5/30/25 08:52, Thomas Lange wrote: I saw too many bug reports, that didn't had any reaction from the package maintainer for years. This should be avoided. The said bug reports are often vague and require significant time investment to figure out and are being judged by the maintainer not to

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Re: New contributor experience

2025-05-30 Thread Joachim Zobel
Hi. The MR was rather trivial. It pointed out that a bug report was a non- issue by now. It only changed a misleading comment. My idea was to do this so the Debian apache people get to know me. There was a RFH and my impression was help was needed. But as I said - I don't saw any way I could help

Re: New contributor experience

2025-05-30 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Fri, May 30, 2025 at 02:39:19PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > > This seems like a good opportunity to point out that for non-trivial > changes, it's often a good idea to have a bug report (or issue, or > whatever this particular project uses) *anyway*, as a place to put a > solution-neutral pr

Re: New contributor experience

2025-05-30 Thread Andrey Rakhmatullin
On Fri, May 30, 2025 at 05:03:40PM +0200, Joachim Zobel wrote: I just wanted to add that there is also an emotional aspect to this. I offered help and was ignored. So as a result I feel rejected with a general "if they don't want me they can get on without me" shrug. Also I am aware that this is

Re: New contributor experience

2025-05-30 Thread Joachim Zobel
Hi. I just wanted to add that there is also an emotional aspect to this. I offered help and was ignored. So as a result I feel rejected with a general "if they don't want me they can get on without me" shrug. Also I am aware that this is _nonsense_ - no response probably means there simply was n

Re: New contributor experience

2025-05-30 Thread Simon McVittie
On Fri, 30 May 2025 at 10:19:19 -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote: On Fri, May 30, 2025 at 01:46:57PM +0100, Ahmad Khalifa wrote: What should you do in that situation where you have a no-response MR? Open a bug report pointing to the MR. Or, if there is a pre-existing bug report, send mail to it

Re: New contributor experience

2025-05-30 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Fri, May 30, 2025 at 01:46:57PM +0100, Ahmad Khalifa wrote: > On 30/05/2025 10:14, Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote: > > Also because MRs are second-class citizens and maintainers normally > > don't even get notifications that one was created. > > What should you do in that situation where you have a

Re: New contributor experience

2025-05-30 Thread Ahmad Khalifa
On 30/05/2025 10:14, Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote: Also because MRs are second-class citizens and maintainers normally don't even get notifications that one was created. What should you do in that situation where you have a no-response MR? I've had a couple of MRs with no response, but at the sam

Re: New contributor experience

2025-05-30 Thread Thomas Lange
Hi, I think you found a good point that can be improved in Debian. How long does it take to get a feedback from Debian esp. if this is the beginning of your contributions. I would be good if a package maintainer would comment an a MR or a bug report, even if the MR is not applied directly or the b

Re: New contributor experience

2025-05-30 Thread Andrey Rakhmatullin
On Fri, May 30, 2025 at 10:21:28AM +0200, Joachim Zobel wrote: Hi. Since I am relatively new contributing to Debian (while doing software development for 3 decades). I thought it might be useful to share a bit of the experience. One fundamental thing is that you may not be welcomed simply becau

New contributor experience

2025-05-30 Thread Joachim Zobel
Hi. Since I am relatively new contributing to Debian (while doing software development for 3 decades). I thought it might be useful to share a bit of the experience. One fundamental thing is that you may not be welcomed simply because there is nobody there welcoming you. Adding a merge request fo