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Tue, 30 Sep 2008
Maintaining our key packages
Has anyone noticed how loosely APT is maintained since about...several years?
Michael Vogt is currently the person doing uploads and work but, being committed to other things (IIRC in Ubuntu...or in real life), he certainly can't devote enough time for this.
Otavio Salvador helped from time to time, either merging patches or doing some uploads.
Daniel Burrows contributed in some bugs, as he's obviously directly interested in APT, being the maintainer of aptitude.
And I'm doing l10n maintenance... That's *all*.
So, I don't fear saying that one of our key tools is badly maintained and not in the best shape it could be. I wish that some really good and experienced Debian developers get interested in it and, maybe, mentor some non DD's currently in the NM queue, instead of folks beiong encouraged to ITP any piece of crap they can find on sourceforge (sometimes, ITPs look like this to me).
Think about it if you are an experienced C/C++ programmer.
Another idea could be to devote some GSOC slots, next year, to bug triaging/fixing in such packages. Summer 2009 could be a good opportunity as Lenny is probably released by then and we'll be quite far from squeeze freeze, so heavily changing key package can be done.
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