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  • Team maintenance for package dia ?

    From Philippe SWARTVAGHER@21:1/5 to All on Mon Oct 25 11:50:02 2021
    Hello,

    I sent the e-mail above to the list pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org, but I didn’t receive any answer yet. I don’t really understand the difference between the lists pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org and debian-gtk-gnome@
    lists.debian.org, so I’m trying the latter.

    Philippe.

    Début du message réexpédié :

    De: Philippe SWARTVAGHER <phil.swart@gmx.fr>
    Objet: Team maintenance for package dia ?
    Date: 17 octobre 2021 à 20:43:26 UTC+2
    À: pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org

    Hello,

    I'm new to the Debian packaging world, but I would like to be involved, and intent to adopt [1] the dia package. After a period of hanging out on the Debian documentation about packaging and package maintenance, following some mailing lists and
    debconfs, I think I'm ready to seriously start working on this package.

    I'm sending this message to your team to ask if it could be possible to team-maintain (is it the right term ?) the dia package, since it seems already be integrated in the Gnome project [2]. I read and heard a lot that team maintenance is a good thing
    for the package itself, but also for beginner maintainers (like me!).

    The package dia wasn't updated in Debian since February 2020, and it contains a source code of 2016. Upstream [3] seems to have only one main maintainer, but is still active. However, there was no official upstream release since 2014.

    I already started to work on the package (a lot of tools to discover: schroot, sbuild, git-buildpackage, dch, uscan...!), especially to setup git-buildpackage and update the watch file. My plan is the following:
    - fix errors reported by lintian and piuparts
    - upgrade to the upstream current version/commit
    - (linked to the previous point:) make some cleaning in the patches (probably some of them are not required anymore after upgrading to upstream current version; forward them to upstream if needed, ...)
    - bug triage [4]

    If you accept the dia package into your team, I have some questions:
    - any comment / suggestion on what I already did and what I'm planning to do with the dia package ?
    - should I contact upstream to clarify the release policy ? (do we need to wait for an official release, or just regularly update to the last upstream commit ?)
    - if upstream doesn't provide releases, and we have to regularly upgrade to the last upstream commit, do we need a d/watch file ? If yes, what should it track ?
    - if dia is team-maintenained, do I need to send an "official" RFS when the package will be ready to release, or just dropping an email to the team is enough ?
    - could you create a repository on salsa and add me as a member ? My username on salsa is phsw
    That's all for the moment, I probably will have more questions going further in the packaging process ! :)

    If I succeed with the dia package, there are also the packages dia-shapes and autodia, which are currently maintained by the QA team, and, if I understand correctly the role of this team, they would be happy if someone else can take care of these
    packages !

    Looking forward to your reply,

    Philippe.

    PS: why this mailing list isn't listed on [5] ?

    [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=982055
    [2] https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Dia/
    [3] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/dia/
    [4] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?repeatmerged=no&src=dia
    [5] https://lists.debian.org/completeindex.html


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