[wikka-community] Wikka and Ubuntu

[Dario Taraborelli]

FYI - a very useful reply from the Ubuntu guys re: including Wikka in  
the Ubuntu repos

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Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Philip Newborough" <mail at philipnewborough.co.uk>
> Date: 15 February 2008 17:56:11 GMT
> To: "Dario Taraborelli" <dartar at wikkawiki.org>
> Cc: jorge at ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: Wikka and Ubuntu
> Reply-To: mail at philipnewborough.co.uk
>
> Hi Dario
>
> Thanks for the software, I've not had as much time to play with
> WikkaWiki as I'd like, but I've really enjoyed the time I've spent
> using it so far -- hopefully it'll prove to be a really useful tool.
>
> Regarding packaging for Ubuntu, I think it would be great to get
> WikkaWiki included in the Ubuntu repositories. The Ubuntu wiki has
> some really good documentation for packagers:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide
>
> Also, you may find the MOTU page of use, the MOTUs are community
> members who spend their time adding, maintaining, and supporting
> software found in Universe repositories:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU
>
> Finally, if you use IRC, you could always pop into the #ubuntu-motu
> channel on freenode.net. The guys in the channel are generally a
> friendly bunch and will help to answer any questions you may have and
> help to point you in the right direction.
>
> Best Regards
>
> Philip Newborough
>
> P.S. I've CC'd Jorge O. Castro on this reply, Jorge is kind of our
> pipeline between community and upstream / motu.  He may be a good
> beginning contact in you getting started in motu.
>
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Dario Taraborelli <dartar at wikkawiki.org 
> > wrote:
>
>
>> Hi Philip,
>>
>> I read your review of WikkaWiki at Crunchbag, thanks for your nice
>> words. I'm not a Ubuntu user but I wonder what it would take for  
>> Wikka
>> to get included as an installable package in the Ubuntu distribution.
>> Any pointer to documentation for prospective developers would be very
>> useful - do you know what we should look at?
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Dario
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dario Taraborelli
>> Wikka Development Team
>> http://wikkawiki.org