JonathanMarsden
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Jonathan Marsden
Email: <jmarsden AT SPAMFREE fastmail DOT fm>
Goals
- Learn enough about Ubuntu packaging to become a MOTU someday.
- Document the learning process so others learn from my mistakes
Current Activities
- Answering questions on LP Answers
- Fixing simple bugs
- Creating debdiffs for them
- Hanging out on #ubuntu-motu and #ubuntu-server both asking for help and helping others
- Adding or editing content on this wiki where appropriate
- Verifying SRUs from -proposed when I can
Common Mistakes in Packaging (which I have made already!)
- Keep lines of text under 80 chars in debian/changelog
- Remember to update the Standards-Version (and check the package meets the new version)
- Provide plenty of detail in debian/changelog so a newcomer can quickly see what was changed
The one line synopsis needs to be a noun phrase. Think "<packagename> is a <noun phrase>". Many current packages do not seem to follow this guideline, but that's 'life'.