Debian Printing Team

/!\ THIS IS CURRENTLY A PROPOSAL: NOTHING OFFICIAL, NOTHING DONE YET /!\

Initial proposal

RFC: Forming a Printing Task Force

As stated in the above mail, the situation is not really good in the printing scope : the diff with Ubuntu is growing, the bug reports are piling, several security issues have arosen, etc. In order to solve this in time for squeeze, the idea is to merge multiple teams and their diverted forces into a bigger single "Printing Team".

This renewed team would handle the packages from the list below.

Concerned packages

Please list here the packages that would be handled by the eventual team. Please also remove them if needed.

(Please keep alphabetical order.)

Package

Maintainers

In Team

With Ubuntu

VCS

Comments

c2050

?MarcoNenciarini

{X}

{X}

None known

Few bugs, diff is void

cjet

ChrisLawrence

{X}

{X}

None known

cups

Debian CUPS Maintainers <pkg-cups-devel AT lists DOT alioth DOT debian DOT org>

{X}

(./)

Bazaar - Broken ?

RFA: 532097, Collaboration of ?TillKamppeter and ?MartinPitt

cups-pdf

Debian CUPS Maintainers <pkg-cups-devel AT lists DOT alioth DOT debian DOT org>

{X}

(./)

None known

Other team

foo2zjs

Debian Foo2zjs Maintainers <foo2zjs-maintainer AT lists DOT alioth DOT debian DOT org>

{X}

{X}

Svn

Other team

foomatic-db

ChrisLawrence, DidierRaboud, ?TillKamppeter

{X}

(./)

Git in collab-maint

foomatic-db-engine

ChrisLawrence, DidierRaboud, ?TillKamppeter

{X}

(./)

Git in collab-maint

foomatic-filters

ChrisLawrence, DidierRaboud, ?TillKamppeter

{X}

(./)

Git in collab-maint

ghostscript

MasayukiHatta, TorstenLandschoff, JonasSmedegaard

{X}

{X}

Git in collab-maint

uncertain, JonasSmedegaard might join.

gutenprint

Debian Printing Group <debian-printing AT lists DOT debian DOT org>

{X}

{X}

Git in collab-maint

O: 479397

hplip

Debian HPIJS and HPLIP maintainers <pkg-hpijs-devel AT lists DOT alioth DOT debian DOT org>

{X}

{X}

Svn in pkg-hpijs

Collaboration of ?TillKamppeter and ?MarkPurcell

m2300w

Not in Debian - Ubuntu:m2300w

{X}

/!\

pnm2ppa

ChadWalstrom

{X}

{X}

None known

O: 572679

pxljr

Not in Debian - Ubuntu:pxljr

{X}

/!\

system-config-printer

OtavioSalvador, Gnome Maintainers <pkg-gnome-maintainers AT lists DOT alioth DOT debian DOT org>

{X}

{X}

Svn in pkg-gnome

Other team

splix

?JeroenVanWolffelaar, ?PabloMazzini

{X}

{X}

None known

The QA list of packages

Those could be concerned but declined the invitation. They are kept here for reference.

Package

Maintainers

Declined

min12xxw

?StefanPotyra

No thanks for min12xxw

poppler

?LoicMinier, ?JossMouette, ?DaveBeckett, ?RossBurton

"Help is welcome, could stay in pkg-freedesktop" JossMouette

python-cups

OtavioSalvador, DPMT <python-modules-team AT lists DOT alioth DOT debian DOT org>

"shouldn't be moved out of python-modules" JossMouette

Infrastructure

Infrastructure re-use proposal:

Name

Debian Printing Group

? … Task Force ?

Mailing-list

<debian-printing AT lists DOT debian DOT org>

? Friendly takeover of debian-printing from gutenprint packagers ? There are others, but that one exists and is on l.d.o (if that matters)

Alioth group

collab-maint

? Collab-Maint seems to be a consensus, and many packages are already using it. Rather pkg-print ? There is already pkg-cups and pkg-hpijs…

VCS

Free

? There should probably be no preference.

IRC

#debian-printing

? Already exists.

To be done

Bugs

Quoting Martin Pitt

Packages

Team