[csw-users] Submitting an ncmpc package

[Alessio]

Trygve Laugstøl wrote:

> Ok, sorry. I was (or am) a bit annoyed that I didn't get a single 
> response, even if it was to say that "we're busy".

you didn't know, but your mail has been also forwarded to the private of 
the maintainers mailing list to discuss about that... so you didn't get 
ignored

> How long should I expect to wait? 

well, the 1st prerequisite to be a blastwave maintainer is patience, 
because it's an hard work, without any retribution and with many users 
which keep asking many things...

> you can't expect me to stay around for ever either.

well, the 2nd prerequisite to be a blastwave maintainer is the 
willingness to stay around for as long time as possibile, since there 
are already too many abandoned packages...

> The most important thing to me is that I have somewhere to put my 
> packages so I know that my work won't be lost. I wouldn't mind it if 
> someone would commit my packages for me, I'm not demanding to become a 
> maintainer straight away.

nobody will commit your packages, because this is not how blastwave 
packages submission process works:
1) you have to signup as maintainer, possibly for more than 1 package.
Remember: a maintainer is someone who has a lot of spare time, is 
willing to maintain his packages for more than 1 year, and daily uses 
them for personal or professional purposes
2) you have to wait for a response
3) you'll have
to signup again if nobody answers you (and there are many reasons this 
could happen)
4) if someone will answer you, then you'll have to prove you are really 
willing to be a maintainer (but only Phil knows how) and possibly you've 
to provide a "bombastic" email address
5) you'll get access to the blastwave build machines: only there you can 
build your packages, following exactly the guidelines [1]
6) once a package has bee built, you have to submit it to the other 
maintainers for testing and QA
7) finally, the package will be submitted in the unstable catalog
8) after N months, if the package does not receive any major bug report 
on mantis, it will be automatically submitted to the stable catalog

Love it or hate it, this is blastwave.

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[1] http://www.blastwave.org/standards/