nomination of Alan Mizrahi for new KDE maintainer
Hi, Alan has a personal repository at: http://www.mizrahi.com.ve/crux/pkgs Here is an excerpt from the "looking for a new KDE maintainer" thread on crux@: On Tuesday 22 August 2006 4:40, Alan Mizrahi wrote:
Ideally I'd like to find someone to maintain two httpup repositories: kde.httpup (kdelibs, kdebase, kdeartwork, etc.), and kde-extra.httpup (with all of the KDE stuff from my personal repository). It seems reasonable to presume that should this person maintain them well, then he or she could possibly join CRUX as the KDE maintainer, due to the experience gained while maintaining the httpup repositories. Any volunteers?
I volunteer to maintain the kde repositories. I've had experience building KDE on Solaris and Linux since the 1.x days. I'll do my best to keep these ports updated.
On the other hand, I'm not sure about all the KDE stuff you have there. I'll have to check one by one and see what is usefull to me, as I don't think I could maintain a port of a piece of software I don't use.
Last night I built KDE-3.5.4, but won't have the time to test it thoroughly, so haven't committed it to SVN, but have instead put it in my personal repository. If I hear that it works great, without issues, for a few people then I'll certainly check it in...but I'm transitioning out of my CRUX responsibilities, so don't want to commit to supporting a new release just yet.
I've been using 3.5.4 for a week already and haven't found any problems. Anyway, I can commit it when its thoroughly tested if you give me the SVN access.
In Alan's personal repository I'm intrigued to see a port for em8300. They're tricky cards to get working properly, iirc. He has a few other ports that look interesting, but none which I've had the opportunity to try; they look like good ports. Because Alan already has a httpup repository, my kde.httpup + kde-extra.httpup idea is kind of superfluous. If everyone is in accordance with Alan's nomination, then is it possible for him to soon get SVN access so that he can help out with adopting my ports from attic--when I sed the Maintainer and Packager lines and move the ports there later this month? Oh yeah! Is anyone interested in maintaining a category of ports which I privately call "multimedia". Stuff like libxvid, libdvdread, etc. Matt, you have libtheora, so perhaps you'd like the rest of the bunch too? Cheers, Nick
Hi, On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 18:17:19 -0600, Nick Steeves wrote:
Hi,
Alan has a personal repository at: http://www.mizrahi.com.ve/crux/pkgs
Which is also being sync'ed to contrib for those wondering :-). [...]
In Alan's personal repository I'm intrigued to see a port for em8300. They're tricky cards to get working properly, iirc. He has a few other ports that look interesting, but none which I've had the opportunity to try; they look like good ports. I quickly ran my validator scripts on his repo: http://sh.nu/p/2875
The number of missing footprints and md5sum is kinda worrying, even more so since this has been pointed out when he joined contrib back in january this year [1]. Other than that, it's great that Alan volunteered to take over KDE, and if you feel confident that he's up for the job I think we should make that happen :-).
If everyone is in accordance with Alan's nomination, then is it possible for him to soon get SVN access so that he can help out with adopting my ports from attic--when I sed the Maintainer and Packager lines and move the ports there later this month? Independent of who takes over the ports, would it maybe be a good idea to have KDE in an SVN/ports subdirectory on its own, to be able to recruit dedicated KDE maintainers? The same could be done for gnome, which is currently hosted by Matt privately.
I assume we could host that on crux.nu, labelled as official subproject, so it's not like those ports would lose any credit. Regards, Johannes References: 1. http://lists.crux.nu/pipermail/crux-contrib/2006-January/000665.html -- Johannes Winkelmann mailto:jw@smts.ch Zurich, Switzerland http://jw.smts.ch
On Thursday 24 August 2006 7:10 am, Johannes Winkelmann wrote:
Hi,
On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 18:17:19 -0600, Nick Steeves wrote:
Hi,
Alan has a personal repository at: http://www.mizrahi.com.ve/crux/pkgs
Which is also being sync'ed to contrib for those wondering :-).
[...]
In Alan's personal repository I'm intrigued to see a port for em8300. They're tricky cards to get working properly, iirc. He has a few other ports that look interesting, but none which I've had the opportunity to try; they look like good ports.
I quickly ran my validator scripts on his repo: http://sh.nu/p/2875
The number of missing footprints and md5sum is kinda worrying, even more so since this has been pointed out when he joined contrib back in january this year [1].
The ports I am syncing are fine, the ones with missing footprints and md5sums are not beeing synced. I am very carefull before syncing ports, and of course I will be testing the KDE ports thoroughly before releasing new versions. Anyway, this has already been taken care of. I think even Per wouldn't pass all your tests :) Regards, Alan
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 09:10:56AM +0200, Johannes Winkelmann wrote:
Hi,
On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 18:17:19 -0600, Nick Steeves wrote:
Hi,
Alan has a personal repository at: http://www.mizrahi.com.ve/crux/pkgs
Which is also being sync'ed to contrib for those wondering :-).
[...]
In Alan's personal repository I'm intrigued to see a port for em8300. They're tricky cards to get working properly, iirc. He has a few other ports that look interesting, but none which I've had the opportunity to try; they look like good ports. I quickly ran my validator scripts on his repo: http://sh.nu/p/2875
The output of portverify [1] can be found here: http://sh.nu/p/2877
The number of missing footprints and md5sum is kinda worrying, even more so since this has been pointed out when he joined contrib back in january this year [1].
Other than that, it's great that Alan volunteered to take over KDE, and if you feel confident that he's up for the job I think we should make that happen :-).
If everyone is in accordance with Alan's nomination, then is it possible for him to soon get SVN access so that he can help out with adopting my ports from attic--when I sed the Maintainer and Packager lines and move the ports there later this month? Independent of who takes over the ports, would it maybe be a good idea to have KDE in an SVN/ports subdirectory on its own, to be able to recruit dedicated KDE maintainers? The same could be done for gnome, which is currently hosted by Matt privately.
Good idea, I second that. Greetings Juergen [1] http://jue.ods.org/files/portverify%230.2.0.pkg.tar.gz -- Juergen Daubert | mailto:jue@jue.li Korb, Germany | http://jue.li/crux
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Alan Mizrahi -
Johannes Winkelmann -
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Nick Steeves