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how to become a package maintainer

Asked by Daniel Brumbaugh-Keeney

There's been a lot of talk lately on the official ruby-talk mailing list about how debian and ubuntu package ruby stuff (ruby interpreter, rubygems, ri, rdoc, basics of ruby developing). There have been a number of complaints and claims that debian doesn't "get" ruby. Basically, I was wondering if it would be possible for a ruby programmer such as myself (I'm sure several qualified people would volunteer if I announced it on the mailing list) could be involved in the packaging process. Thank you.

-Daniel

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Best Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto) said : 		#1

Personally, I'm not aware of any person or group that does specific ruby packaging (there could be, I simply don't know).
We do have a quite active packaging community, which everyone is free to join. The portal is here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU

You can join us in freenode, channel #ubuntu-motu, perhaps there is somebody there who can help you on the ruby specifics.

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Daniel Brumbaugh-Keeney (db-keen) said : 		#2

Thanks Cesare Tirabassi, that solved my question.