Hi - I've been maintaining an Ubuntu PPA for bitshares and am planning on doing a worker proposal for bitshares 2.0. I can take care of Debian-based distribution (Mint, Ubuntu, etc.) and infrastructure, but I think having a coherent and robust packaging for all distros would be best. If you're currently maintaining packages for a distro and want to join in my proposal, please PM me with your "packaging resume" and what you've done for bitshares so far.
Also, if you know Debian-based packaging, please let me know too since we'll need redundancy in case I get hit by the proverbial bus.
Docker experience, Ubuntu snappy experience (don't know if we want to go in that direction yet) could be useful, but you'll need to explain what you do.
I'm hoping for a small team (~4) of experienced linux packagers/distribution people. Ideally we can set up something like the open build service opensuse uses (
http://openbuildservice.org/).
Why?: Why have one proposal rather than independent? People may recognize that linux packages are important, but may only vote for proposals for their distro of choice. I believe distro coverage is also very important, but proposals for specific distros may not get funded. If we team up we can get a larger community behind the proposal so more distros will be covered. Also, there will be some infrastructure required, sharing the workload and removing redundancy will be beneficial.