Re: Approached DouDouLinux developers
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 11:18 PM, Jean-Michel Philippe
<jean-michel.philippe@doudoulinux.org> wrote:
> Sorry for the delay, I'm very very busy these days... I fear this is not
> going to change a lot during the coming weeks so, if I don't answer very
> quickly, please don't imagine that I'm fed up with you!!!
Not at all. All this is done voluntarily and efforts are put in thereafter.
(I am to absent now and then.)
>> I read the Packages file in your APT repository and I found some packages that
>> could be candidates for upload to Debian (or merging with already existing
>> packages).
>
> Ok. Don't hesitate to ask me if the role of some packages is not very
> clear.
There were quite some for LXDE that were customized for DouDouLinux, why?
> Note that there may still be obsolete packages on our repository, for
> example the series doudoulinux-l10n-xx as source packages (but not
> doudoulinux-l10n). doudoulinux-l10n-xx were the first ones, I discovered
> later how to make a single source package leading to several binary
> ones.
Understood.
>> > Indeed I'm already member of this list :). I'll put my answer to Per's
>> > email in CC to let the discussion go on here.
>>
>> That's great! (I suppose you are more people though?)
>
> Mmm, well, most of our contributors are translators, which is logical
> since we recently reached 45 language teams. The core team is around 10
> people with few developers (at most 3-4, varying with seasons!).
> Currently I'm the only active one. The second most active developer, who
> made our ARM port, has left the team for personal reasons and things now
> progress very slowly. It's difficult to have people contribute in the
> long term. Two developers are interested to join but it is too early to
> tell how motivated they are.
Quite a big team anyway. :-)
> So I'll probably be your unique interlocutor for weeks or months.
> Fortunately I've always been the only one to make Debian packages for
> DoudouLinux. So I know all of them and should be able to answer all your
> questions.
Do you have any package to suggest for upload to Debian already?
--
Per
> --
> Cheers,
> JM.
>
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