On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 07:38, lintux@lintux.cx wrote: > FYI: It's just my standard Usenet reply header.. :-) But I need a new one, I > think. yeah ... I noticed that with your following posts ... =] I thought you were mocking me... anyway... > :-( General question, then:> > Is there any way of taking over a package for which only an ITP exists, if > necessary? pretty good point, there are several packages that hava a 300+ days old ITP ... and may even be forgotten by the original proposer, and when someone talks about incorporating it they get the standard response: "the package already has an ITP" what can one do about it ? how can I express my interes in maintaining or _help_ maintaining one given package ? by the way, I contacted Barnaby Gray <barnaby@beedesign.co.uk> (the creator of Ickle) about maintaining his package, and he showed a lot of interest. snip: > Hello Leo, > > I'd be happy to take you up on the offer of getting ickle into > debian. Recently I took over maintaining the packages and rewrote some > of the control stuff to work better with the ickle/ickle-gnome > separation. I was intending on working to get them into debian and > signed up to debian-devel at one point, but it does seem like a lot of > work just to be accepted as an official maintainer.. I really don't > have time, so I'd appreciate someone dedicated who want to do it. > > At the moment ickle is in the middle of a split for moving the > underlying library away into it's own separate thing, so I don't > really want the packages as they are going straight into debian. What > I'm envisioning is two separate package groups once this is done: > > libicq2000 > libicq2000-dev > > ickle > ickle-gnome > ickle-common > (maybe ickle-dev, although probably not worth distributing) > > So you'll have to become the maintainer for these two separate > systems. > > How does that sound to you? is anyone interested in helping me out ? Sponsors anywhere ? I wanna become an official Developer... =] -- Leo Costela Public Key: http://wwwkeys.pgp.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x7ADF9466 "I ran into an infinite loop and got here"
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