On Monday, @Dirk, @Baboon and myself had a short chat how Netways can help out (it terms of human power) with Debian packaging.
The current plan is that @Baboon will join me in reviewing and improving our packaging, especially:
- semi-regular review sessions to avoid situations where PRs linger around too long and contributors are annoyed (sorry lzap!)
- reducing “time to package”: simplify adding new dependencies and plugins by providing templates and helpers (similar to what we do for RPM today)
- increasing test reporting: today it’s rather hard to see why the CI failed, we need to make it better approachable by the users
We’ll start with the first two points ASAP, and hope to get to number three after that.