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  • Re: Looking for a mentor

    From Marc Haber@21:1/5 to Marc Haber on Tue Jun 25 14:40:01 2024
    For the mailing list: Kayven is unlikely to ever see my mail since gmail rejected the directly delivered message as usual.

    On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 02:30:10PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
    On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 08:00:23PM -0700, Kayven Riese wrote:
    I have a friend who has incentivized me to implement a very specific addition of an option to the cut command that he says is part of HP Linux and has been standard in the past having to do with condensing white
    space. He wants me to learn how to contribute to the Debian project officially. I have an extensive academic background in UNIX/C programming but have never been a part of any open source project. I am hoping to connect with a mentor who can facilitate this task for me. Thank you very much in advance to any and all who are of assistance.

    My gut feeling is that you would be best served by developing a patch
    for the upstream GNU coreutils. Debian is probably unlikely to accept a behavior changing patch that hasn't been suggested upstream. That way,
    all distributions would remain consistent with each other.

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  • From Marc Haber@21:1/5 to Kayven Riese on Tue Jun 25 14:50:02 2024
    On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 08:00:23PM -0700, Kayven Riese wrote:
    I have a friend who has incentivized me to implement a very specific
    addition of an option to the cut command that he says is part of HP Linux
    and has been standard in the past having to do with condensing white
    space. He wants me to learn how to contribute to the Debian project officially. I have an extensive academic background in UNIX/C programming but have never been a part of any open source project. I am hoping to connect with a mentor who can facilitate this task for me. Thank you very much in advance to any and all who are of assistance.

    My gut feeling is that you would be best served by developing a patch
    for the upstream GNU coreutils. Debian is probably unlikely to accept a behavior changing patch that hasn't been suggested upstream. That way,
    all distributions would remain consistent with each other.

    Greetings
    Marc

    -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 6224 1600402 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 6224 1600421

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  • From Soren Stoutner@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jul 16 17:42:39 2024
    Copy: [email protected] (Adam Danischewski)

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    Adam,

    An ITP is an Intent To Package. It means that you intend to do the work to create the
    package.

    An RFP is a Request For Package. It means that you would like to see the software in
    Debian, but you don’t intend to do the work yourself.

    Based on your comment below, did you mean to file an RFP instead of an ITP?

    https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/[1]

    On Tuesday, July 16, 2024 2:27:48 PM MST Adam Danischewski wrote:
    Hi, I've submitted an ITP, not sure about the timeframes or if I could help speed things along:
    https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1074463

    Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

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    Soren Stoutner
    [email protected]

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    <body><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">Adam,</p>
    <br /><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">An ITP is an Intent To Package.&nbsp; It means that you intend to do the work to create the package.</p>
    <br /><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">An RFP is a Request For Package.&nbsp; It means that you would like to see the software in Debian, but you don’t intend to do the work yourself.</p>
    <br /><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">Based on your comment below, did you mean to file an RFP instead of an ITP?</p>
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  • From Soren Stoutner@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jul 17 09:47:01 2024
    Adam,

    Thanks for doing this work.

    The next step is that you will want to upload your package to mentors.debian.net and mark it as needing a sponsor. There are instructions at:

    https://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers/

    Feel free to ask any questions along the way.

    Soren

    On Tuesday, July 16, 2024 7:38:35 PM MST Adam Danischewski wrote:
    Hi Scott,

    Thanks for the quick response - yes I'd like to add the package to Debian.
    I have actually packaged it, but I really wasn't sure how the system
    worked.

    I've created a debian branch on my github that I think has everything
    needed (at least what was in the tutorial I followed).

    If you could take a look or suggest how to proceed, I'd appreciate it.

    Thanks,
    +Ad

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    Soren Stoutner
    [email protected]
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