Hello,
On 2024-11-22 22:24, Mo Zhou wrote:
It involves more social issues than technical issues that relies on
experience, on a per-upstream
basis, which is never something that can be effectively documented.
I totally agree and could only repeat what Mo has written in this email.
I've perso
On Sun, 24 Nov 2024 14:38:57 -0800, Otto Kekäläinen
>+100 to this. Personally I find that collaboration with others is the
>most rewarding aspect of participating in open source in general, and
>all the benefits that come from collaboration and having lots of
>eyeballs and also many people innovat
> > I'm still trying to understand if it's a good idea to contact
> > upstream authors and tell them their software is being worked on to
> > be included in Debian, or not.
..
> So my advice is to go for it, maintaining software in Debian is much
> more fun when there is a positive exchange with th
> I'm still trying to understand if it's a good idea to contact
> upstream authors and tell them their software is being worked on to
> be included in Debian, or not.
I just got around opening two new RFPs, and turn an existing RFP into
an ITP. For each one, I sent a ping upstream.
The responses
I was packaging something this week and noticed they hadn't tagged any
release on git, despite having releases.
I asked them to tag it because it'd be easier for me and they did it within
a couple of hours.
Often in my experience they're happy to have patches too of they make sense
outside of Deb
It involves more social issues than technical issues that relies on
experience, on a per-upstream
basis, which is never something that can be effectively documented.
I've personally encountered upstreams super happy to hear the bits about
inclusion in Debian,
as well as improvement suggestions
On Friday, November 22, 2024 12:53:11 PM MST Jérémy Lal wrote:
> I'm still trying to understand if it's a good idea to contact upstream
> authors and tell them their software is being worked on to be included in
> Debian, or not.
> My own experience has been that most upstream projects don't care a
I'm still trying to understand if it's a good idea to contact upstream
authors and tell them their software is being worked on to be included in
Debian, or not.
My own experience has been that most upstream projects don't care about
Debian.
Some do, of course. But many don't.
With my experience, I
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