<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 1:44 AM, Jeremiah Foster <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeremiah@jeremiahfoster.com">jeremiah@jeremiahfoster.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
To summarize a bit; I think the feedback I am receiving is that I need<br>
to be more proactive and visible in places like iTT and take up the<br>
discussion with developers about packaging. From my perspective, that<br>
means reducing the amount of repository work to some degree and<br>
replacing that with "real time" packaging discussions, policy changes,<br>
and other documentation.</blockquote></div><br>I also think interacting in the forums and one-on-one with developers having packaging difficulties should be a high priority.<br><br>The <a href="http://maemo.org">maemo.org</a> community seems to have a large number of very amateur developers (myself included) who see a need and develop a solution to fill that need. These solutions often are written in Python or are composed of a series of shell scripts, so no compiling is necessary. These new developers post their solutions on the forums, and they are very appreciated by the community. <br>
<br>The problem then is that these amateur developers have never packaged an application before, and they don't know how to package the app (make a .deb) and make it available to a wider audience (put it in Extras). <br>
<br>I would love to see the debmaster "pick up the slack" and help get these applications properly packaged, and then, if the community support is strong enough, help get the package into Extras.<br><br>I'm sure the backend server stuff is important too, I just don't know anything about it so I can't comment there.<br clear="all">
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