Hello,

I've just now subscribed to the perl team's mailing list and I wanted to introduce myself a tiny bit since I would like to join the team.


I'm Gabriel and I've been slowly making my way to work on packaging
software in debian. I'm not a DM or a DD (yet?...).
On salsa I'm known as LeLutin and I'm also present on IRC with the same nickname.


I've been (co-)maintaining a package for a number of years now for a
software that's written in perl, smokeping, but that's not published on
CPAN. [1]

For the new upstream version of that software, new dependencies were
added for a new optional feature. One of those dependencies,
InfluxDB::HTTP, is not packaged in debian yet, so I'd like to work on
creating it. I was told on IRC that this library would be a good fit for
the perl team.


Other than that, I've also been creating packages for ruby software and libraries related to puppet. In the past, I've also helped out with
organising Debconf17 in Montreal.


[1]: FYI someone suggested a while ago to help out with the smokeping
package and also suggested that we could bring it into the perl team.
I'm open to both of those ideas, but I'll start smaller and just focus
at first on libinfluxdb-http-perl for satisfying the new dependency.

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On Mon, 02 May 2022 16:00:05 -0400, Gabriel Filion wrote:

I've just now subscribed to the perl team's mailing list and I wanted to introduce myself a tiny bit since I would like to join the team.
I'm Gabriel and I've been slowly making my way to work on packaging software in debian. I'm not a DM or a DD (yet?...).
On salsa I'm known as LeLutin and I'm also present on IRC with the same nickname.

Hi,

and thanks for your interest in joining the Perl Team!

I've just added you to the perl-team/modules group on Salsa, welcome aboard!

I know that you've already found our docs at https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianPerlGroup/Welcome https://perl-team.pages.debian.net/
(especially policy.html and git.html)
and also our IRC channel - so there's not much more of onboarding
info left, expect maybe:

For adding new packages, please use `dpt salsa pushrepo'. The other dpt-* tools might be helpful as well :)


Cheers,
gregor

[1]: FYI someone suggested a while ago to help out with the smokeping
package and also suggested that we could bring it into the perl team. I'm open to both of those ideas, but I'll start smaller and just focus at first on libinfluxdb-http-perl for satisfying the new dependency.

To quote myself (from a private mail about a similar piece of
software):

"This thing doesn't resemble a CPAN distribution and doesn't use a
perl build system (unless I missed something), it's just written in
perl.

So I think it's not a natural fit for the perl team as it probably has
nothing in common with almost all of the other packages there; but it
wouldn't be the sole outlier, so if you look for some co-maintainers
who do at least some automated QA improvements, I won't object to
adding it :)"


Cheers,
gregor

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Hi,

On 2022-05-03 14:57, gregor herrmann wrote:

and thanks for your interest in joining the Perl Team!

thanks a bunch for the quick response! I can't say the same for this one
though <.< sorry for the long silence but some major things are moving
in my life and it's been taking my whole energy... hopfully for the
better soon (who ever knows, right?)

I've just added you to the perl-team/modules group on Salsa, welcome aboard!

I know that you've already found our docs at https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianPerlGroup/Welcome https://perl-team.pages.debian.net/
(especially policy.html and git.html)
and also our IRC channel - so there's not much more of onboarding
info left, expect maybe:

For adding new packages, please use `dpt salsa pushrepo'. The other dpt-* tools might be helpful as well:)

Great, thanks for the pointers. I'm hoping to participate in the local
debian meetup in Montreal this sunday so I'll take that time to figure
things out and prepare the perl library that's newly required by smokeping.

So normally, you should hear from me soon on this list and/or IRC :)

Cheers!

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