• Debian has no generalised mechanism for contacting users of packages

    From Paul Wise@21:1/5 to All on Fri Apr 29 07:30:02 2016
    Hi all,

    I was thinking about how Debian does not have mechanisms for contacting
    users of particular packages for help with testing particular changes,
    for example invasive security fixes or new upstream releases.

    Does anyone have some suggestions for how to do this?

    Some options I can think of:

    A tag on the package tracker people could subscribe to.

    Filing bugs tagged help and having how-can-i-help show that to users.

    A new system for this or an extension to the package tracker for users
    to register themselves to particular packages and particular kinds of
    mails (testing on arch foo, security fix testing, etc).

    Thoughts?

    --
    bye,
    pabs

    https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise



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  • From Paul Wise@21:1/5 to Paul Wise on Fri Apr 29 08:00:02 2016
    On Fri, 2016-04-29 at 12:27 +0800, Paul Wise wrote:

    Hi all,

    Sorry, I wrote to the wrong list.

    Discussion moved to debian-devel in a new thread.

    --
    bye,
    pabs

    https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise



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