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Re: Good communication with upstream is good idea

Subject: Re: Good communication with upstream is good idea
From: Osamu Aoki <osamu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 16:40:08 +0200
Newsgroups: linux.debian.devel

Hi,

On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 12:30:21PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > I think we should encourage packager to contact upstream with simple
> > "hello!" message and he (or myself) should be part of active upstream ML.
> 
> When I had upstreams, I always used to do this.
> 
> Often though, I'd wait until I had some patches to go with the "hello",
> to make the message have a bit more value.

This is what I did and good trigger point of contacting upstreams.
Developers Reference needs to add this point.

Hello is OK but this is good recommendation point to act.

Osamu

PS:  I expected some thread to follow but this one was good response for
me.  Thanks.


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