ANNOUNCE: A mailing list for git packaging discussion
Now that my PCRE v2 patches have landed, I wanted to prod packagers of git to tell them they could build against it since they probably had it packaged already.
After E-Mailing Jonathan Nieder about that asking if there was a better way to contact packagers than hunting down their E-Mails individually:
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More generally, do you know if there's some good way to contact the maintainers of various git packages (I was hoping there would be some list, even an unofficial giant CC one), or if I'd just need to hunt down the contact details for common distros manually.
Sadly I don't know of a git-packagers@ list, or I'd be on it. :)
Hence this list. It'll be a low-volume list used for dev -> packager announcements & coordinaiton, and perhaps discussion about git packaging in general (to the extent people feel a need to not discuss that on the main ML).
If you're interested sign up at:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/git-packagers
I've already invited a few people I found in Debian/Ubuntu/Arch/Gentoo/FreeBSD git package changelogs with some quick Googling & those I personally know package Git, but if you are or know anyone packaging git please sign up / prod those people.
Thanks!