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[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Mackenzie Morgan <macoafi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre
> <mathieu-tl at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> Lately, I've found myself touching more and more packages in main and
>> getting fixed sponsored. I believe it ties in to the MOTU team's
>> responsibilities to provide assistance to other developers in bug
>> fixing.
>
> I see you already have access to the NM package set.  Any future
> plans/goals for more packagesets that contain packages from main? (I
> do see that on your wiki page you want to get to core-dev eventually)
>

Yes. I plan to apply to join the desktop team soon.

>> I also think it's up to the MOTU team as a starting point for new
>> contributors wanting to become Ubuntu developers, which is why I
>> joined a new attempt to re-start the MOTU mentorship program.
>> Unfortunately, this still doesn't seem to be going anywhere yet, but I
>> do feel it deserves another honest attempt. I think I would do well as
>> a mentor and in organizing mentorship activities.
>
> Have you been involved at all in the new packaging guide dholbach's
> been on about to make the documentation for newbie-packagers easier?
> Any other ideas for ways to gain more contributors and train them?
>

Not yet, but I was just messing with the branch's code to enable the
guide in devhelp. Admittedly, it's pretty simple, but in light of
questions I've had about packaging from my coworkers I can think of
some details we can add to the guide to further complete information
on how to get really high-quality packages. I think it deserves just a
bit more information about pbuilder/pbuilder-dist, and probably
lintian checks and all of that.

Making things easier to do surely are going to go a long way to
attract contributors, retain, and train them. Further scripting of
common tasks and automatizing the string of commands that we need to
do regularly is going to help a lot with that.

Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <mathieu-tl at ubuntu.com>
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