Making it easier for people to work with upstreams

[Daniel Holbach]

On 13.01.2010 13:56, komputes wrote:
> 2) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DanielHolbach/Upstream
> should be merged with
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Upstream

This is a _proposal_ I'm working on right now.


> 3) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DanielHolbach/Upstream/Adopt
> Should be merged with (and a link should take its place)
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad/AdoptPackage

I'm not sure about that. The page I started writing there was supposed
to give people an overview over ALL the different parts of the community
that are an interface between Ubuntu and an Upstream project. It's not
meant to replace and BugSquad documentation and it's not supposed to
replace a PPA guide or anything that's in UbuntuDevelopment.

The idea is to give people who are passionate about some kind of
software the necessary overview to afterwards know

 - where to start in terms of bugs
 - how to be a bridge between Ubuntu and upstream
 - how to set up a PPA if they need one
 - how to get changes uploaded
 - how to get upload rights later on
 - where debugging pages live on the wiki
 - best-practices of user testing
 - etc.

Please note how this spans across multiple parts of the community. This
is not intending to overwrite any other initiative of any other part of
community.

As far as I'm concerned a good overview over what people can do, some
cheat-sheets, some clarification, a nice outreach campaign and a way for
people share their best-practices would get us a lot more contributors
that are 1) passionate and effective about the collaboration with the
upstream they care about and 2) a great contributors to the BugSquad,
the MOTU team, the testing team, etc.

Have a great day,
 Daniel