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<font face="Century Schoolbook L">Hi all, <br>
What do people think about having mails from
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:debian-devel-announce@lists.debian.org">debian-devel-announce@lists.debian.org</a> . As can be seen on
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/">https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/</a> it says :-<br>
<br>
"Announcements for developers<br>
Announcements of development issues like policy changes, important
release issues &c."<br>
<br>
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. <br>
<br>
Looking forward to know what the list thinks of the same. <br>
<br>
Why is it important ? Because any changes happening in Debian for
better or worse is going to affect us. There is also a
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:debian-devel@lists.debian.org">debian-devel@lists.debian.org</a> but that is a pretty high traffic
list which I wouldn't recommend unless we know how debian works
intimately. <br>
<br>
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. <br>
<br>
How this helps us ?<br>
<br>
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. <br>
<br>
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.
<br>
<br>
Look forward to what people think of the same. <br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Shirish Agarwal,
Community Lead,
Hamaralinux.org</pre>
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