[Hamara-devel] what do people think about having mails from debian-devel-announce at lists.debian.org ?

[shirish]

Hi all,
What do people think about having mails from 
debian-devel-announce at lists.debian.org . As can be seen on 
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/ it says :-

"Announcements for developers
Announcements of development issues like policy changes, important 
release issues &c."

It's a light-traffic list with having 10 or so mails in a month. Now we 
could do either by having all the mails dumped from the announce list or 
forward a few of the more interesting ones to the mailing list.

Looking forward to know what the list thinks of the same.

Why is it important ? Because any changes happening in Debian for better 
or worse is going to affect us. There is also a 
debian-devel at lists.debian.org but that is a pretty high traffic list 
which I wouldn't recommend unless we know how debian works intimately.

Another thing, are there any of us who want to become Debian Maintainers 
or Debian Developers ?  While I'm not myself a DD because it needs more 
dedication than I have or want to spend atm, do know how the process 
works and am and willing to guide people who want to go through the 
process.

How this helps us ?

It helps in various ways. It helps in getting our understanding and 
making better our technical skills on packaging a long way. Debian has 
lots of tools and processes in place for making a distribution release 
seamless while at the same time being thorough about it.  There is of 
course, lots more it can do but as it's a volunteer-driven organization 
whatever they are doing has to be good enough for us for now.  We could 
look at the processes,  use and re-use tools, processes whatever is good 
from them to us and leave the ones which we either do not need or are 
unable to do atm.  Apart from that, there are of course  bragging rights 
that go with becoming a DD as well as having more hacking/employment 
opportunities (especially in the European Union,  Latin American 
Countries and increasingly so in the United States as well.)  as well.

  Look forward to know what people think about the same. As shared, I am 
open to sharing all and any understanding I have both about becoming a 
DM, DD as well as sharing about debian-project as well.

Look forward to what people think of the same.

-- 
Shirish Agarwal,
Community Lead,
Hamaralinux.org

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