Re: [seul-edu] FW: DebianEdu and menu structure

[Doug Loss <drloss@suscom.net>]

Darryl Palmer wrote:
> I received the below mail from Hertzog, the person in charge of
> DebianEdu.  Is it our idea to take permanent maintenance of the packages
> that we create?  Is there anyone on the list that is a Debian developer
> already or started the paper work to become one?  I would be willing to
> help out with maintaining the packages but is it really the goal of
> SEUL/edu to take this on?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Raphael Hertzog [mailto:rhertzog@hrnet.fr] 
> <snip>
> Do you have Debian developers to integrate all those package in Debian
> itself ? Do you plan to maintain them on a regular basis or is this just
> a one-time effort ?
I think our first preference should be for the maintainer of the 
application itself to take permanent maintenance of the Debian package 
(and our RPM and TGZ packages too, for that matter).  Second, if any of 
our people are or want to become Debian developers and take permanent 
maintenance of the packages we develop that would be fine.  The question 
of ongoing maintenance of these packages is a big one, though.  We need 
to think about how (and if) we can do that.  I'd prefer to see the 
application developers themselves perform that task, since that would 
keep things as current as possible.  Even if only ~30% of them did so, 
it would take some burden off of us.  Perhaps we should think about some 
sort of ISO-apps-announce mailing list for our packaging crew where the 
app maintainers would be strongly encouraged to post update 
announcements for their apps.  That way, we couldn't have to chase down 
every update ourselves.

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