• Re: Making progress with projects

    From Nicholas D Steeves@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jul 4 22:50:01 2024
    P.S. Alexandru, here is an RFP from my list:

    https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/944826

    This one already provides some guidance about what team to contact,
    join, and work with--I'd recommend joining a team that you're interested
    in. Other RFPs can be found by browsing the wishlist "wnpp" bugs (among
    other methods).

    I'll reply to our other thread(s?) soonish, and please ping me in two
    weeks if I haven't yet.

    Kind regards,
    Nicholas

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  • From Nicholas D Steeves@21:1/5 to Alexandru Mihail on Thu Jul 18 23:40:01 2024
    Alexandru Mihail <alexandru.mihail2897@gmail.com> writes:

    'ello again, Nicholas !

    P.S.  Alexandru, here is an RFP from my list:

    https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/944826

    Thanks a lot for the link, unfortunately it's 404 :)

    Oops, my bad https://bugs.debian.org/944826

    Regarding ITP:
    I've picked a Pokemon so to say!

    haha!

    It's https://github.com/astrofrog/psrecord from your list of
    recommendations. I like it, it's python, it's lightweight, I like
    upstream's tidiness and I enjoy (for some odd reason) profiling
    software.

    Good reasons to pick this one :)

    https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1075810

    Thank you for the link.

    That said, in the ITP I stated intent to maintain alone for now. The
    Python team does not seem to maintain a lot of random python CLI
    doodads, mainly big python modules such as scipy, etc.

    Well, while Debian aims to be feature-complete, we don't aim to be random-doodad with questionable value-complete ;) The DPT also has
    tonnes of undermaintained single-purpose random libs, and while the
    package count may not show it, there are quite a few applications. The
    current team is an amalgam of a Debian Python Libraries project and
    Debian Python Applications project, btw.

    Should I ask them if it's ok to append myself to their team with this
    package anyway ? What do you say ?
    https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/PythonTeam

    You'll need to read the Team Policy as well as Policy requirements. In
    terms of "is it worth it?" My experience is yes, and as I mentioned previously, you'll grow faster and build reputation faster on a team.
    Note that admission to the DPT is currently rather slow.

    You mentioned a colleague of yours was interested in this software.
    Since you're busy, maybe he could help with sponsorship ?

    Maybe...although, it's almost always faster to just do the work oneself
    rather than review, mentor, and sponsor.

    Regarding keysigning:
    I've read the links you've sent, thank you; I've been over the Key
    offers page before; sadly the only offer in my country is in Timisoara
    which is over 500 km from Bucharest. (Strange, Timisoara is much, much smaller than the capital but I digress :D ).

    Maybe Debian Developers are outliers when considering a standard
    distribution of a population? :)

    If I remember correctly there is someplace persistent where you can
    publish your request for key-signing. Don't give up hope that someone
    might come to you, because Bucharest has one or more good universities.
    For example, someone could hypothetically attend this conference:

    https://internationalconferencealerts.com/eventdetails.php?id=2398703

    Or one of the conferences that looks like someone from the Debian
    Science Team might attend.

    https://internationalconferencealerts.com/conferences/bucharest

    My key is ok, I checked.

    Excellent!

    I guess I'll have to wait for my plans of becoming DM :)

    There are people who will sign your key based on reputation rather than in-person government-issued ID validation. As mentioned previously, you
    can speed this along by joining a team, contributing to email
    discussions, signing your emails, signing your commits, etc.

    I'll reply to our other thread(s?) soonish, and please ping me in two
    weeks if I haven't yet.

    Please don't watch the YouTube link I sent, unless you want to listen
    to rookie guitar riffs 101 :D

    Haha, well, if I listen to/watch it, would you like potentially useful feedback?

    Cheers,
    Nicholas

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