[Mageia-dev] Upgrade: Seamonkey 2.9.1

[Samuel Verschelde]

Le jeudi 24 mai 2012 15:41:08, Eric Elena a écrit :
> Le mercredi 23 mai 2012 à 15:30 +0100, Malo a écrit :
> > On 23/05/12 14:42, Eric Elena wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > [Nice seamonkey package]
> > > 
> > > Eric
> > 
> > Hi Eric,
> > 
> > Thanks for your work. We actually removed Seamonkey/IceApe from Mageia 2
> > because we did not have anyone who could be its maintainer (which is
> > essential if we want to produce solid releases). We would be delighted
> > to have you join Mageia as packager and seamonkey maintainer if you are
> > interested.
> > Note that it might not need that much time, and that builds are done on
> > the build server. If you need testing on cauldron or 1 or 2, it's easy
> > to ask other packagers or apprentices on IRC.
> > 
> > We have an apprenticeship program at Mageia, that I encourage you to
> > join: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Becoming_a_Mageia_Packager
> > Since you seem already knowledgeable, yours should be quite quick and
> > your help would be really welcome.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> 
> Hi Malo,
> 
> Thanks for the reply. I was hoping someone could have been interested in
> grabbing the conf files, as they are quite clean and readable now (in my
> opinion). But I don't think it will be very useful to go through the
> whole process of being a maintainer just for one package...
> 

Yes it's useful, if it allows users to have the package in the main mageia 
repositories instead of having to look for it on third party websites, which 
many users don't know how to do and which we don't encourage because of 
upgrade issues and automated security updates :).

Samuel