[Mageia-dev] Upgrade: Seamonkey 2.9.1

Thu May 24 18:00:47 CEST 2012

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
+