gdmsetup - offering to assist / asking for direction / solution ppa

[Robert Ancell]

Hi Garth,

No problem contacting me directly; I've also forwarded this to the 
Ubuntu Desktop mailing list (generally the best place to announce 
Desktop related work).

I can help by blogging about this tool so that (hopefully) more people 
will use the PPA.

I'd also recommend announcing it on a site like http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/.

The next step is to get the package into Universe so anyone can install 
it.  The process is here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/NewPackages

You can talk to developers by hanging out in #ubuntu-desktop and 
#ubuntu-devel on Freenode.

Don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions.

Thanks for contributing!
--Robert

Garth Johnson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My name is Garth Johnson, and together with Nick Glynn we have developed
> a solution for many of the requested features for the newer gdmsetup
> utility.  The utility (GDM2Setup) is available on launchpad as a PPA at
> https://launchpad.net/gdm2setup and has been in public use for over a
> month now - with very positive feedback from all of it's users.
>
> I am writing to ask for direction and/or suggestions in where to go from
> here.  We would like to make the utility more obviously available, or
> perhaps even take what ever steps are necessary to offer it into the
> standard Ubuntu distribution channels (perhaps for Lucid?).  Many users
> have asked for the features included within the utility, however I do
> not think that the average user even knows that it exists yet - based on
> the many forums and scads of current posts over the subject by the Gnome
> (and related) community.  GDM2Setup is designed and primarily tested in
> Ubuntu, but many others have chimed in saying that it is functioning
> quite well in other distros.
>
> I apologize if I am in error in contacting you specifically over this. 
> I am not sure what the correct protocol or avenue is for this kind of
> thing and am very interested in learning anything I can to accomplish
> this goal.  I would like to become a more useful and productive member
> of the Ubuntu (and Linux as a whole) community.  Please help me or
> direct me where to go or what to do to achieve this more effectively?
>
>
> Thank you in advance for any assistance or information that you can give us,
>
> Garth Johnson
>