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I was real excited when I read about this up on the site and I think it's just a great idea. I've been reading up on how to make .debs and all that fun stuff and with a bit of practice I might actually just be able to do it.
Also this is as good a place as any to come out and beg for help, see when I said with a bit of practice I meant it but for me that could be a few years. I'd like to ask anyone that already knows how to do this to maybe lend me a hand and help teach me so I don't screw things up. While I'm on that topic I think it might be an excellent idea to utilize the mentoring feature available on launchpad (if its sort of like what we need) or just to organize some kind of mentoring thing. I'd be more than willing to be one as soon as I figure out what the heck I'm doing and I suspect plenty of other people wouldn't mind getting involved, except they have no clue how to package .debs. Unfortunately, it wasn't a skill I ever picked up along the way. The little bit I know has been picked up from reading how to install and/or compile.
Having said all that I also had a few ideas I wanted to pitch to everyone to see what they think. I've come from two (ok maybe 5 or 6) other distros but only two that really influenced this. The first, PCLinuxOS, had a separate sub forum (like us) for packages and the maintainers of the distro and another group called Santas Little Helpers (the equivalent of us) would package up things that the community had requested and voted on. It was a great system and was useful for getting additional programs into the repository. I'm not sure of how useful it would be for us since we already fall back on Ubuntu's (and to some extent debians?) monstrous repositories. Essentially people would request an application or an update to an application, a link to the source of it, and a description of it and others could vote giving the packagers an idea of what was wanted the most. Since one has to be a member of the forums to see that sub forum if there's interest in something like this I can copy and paste over the rules for it, etc.
Another thing I had thought of was from my days at Arch. They had a community repository like we now do (or have had for a while I guess) and they elect maintainers for certain packages. I think that could be a good idea for the less popular apps that Ubuntu seems to forget about like gnome-do (currently behind the stable) as well as a few others I can think of. This would go a long way in keeping our repository and apps up to date with the latest stables out there. I for one would volunteer to keep a few of the ones I use on a regular basis and even add one or two that's not even in Ubuntu's repository.
Hmm, I'm really sorry for this massive email. Just had a lot of thoughts to get out and real excited to get started.
Dave
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