On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 11:08:09PM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: > Quoting Davide Viti (zinosat@tiscali.it): > > Hi all, > > > > I've maintained the ttf-dejavu and ttf-freefont packages for the last few years and got to the > > point where it makes no sense for me to continue this: my activity on the above packages dropped > > to zero and I currently don't have the time and energy to spend time on Debian packages. > > > > I prefere to be the one who contributed actively and on time rather than the one unresponsive > > that needs to be contacted to get stuff fixed. > > > > Today I got some bug reports from Fabian and I can't spend time on it right now: > > anyone who can help? > > > > I'd still like to contribute if I had the chance to, but I currently think it's not doable. > > Thanks a lot for notifying us, Davide. And thanks, of course, for all > the work you invested in these packages. > > I hope you'll still have time to work on the package from time to > time. I think we (other pkg-fonts team members) can all work on the > package maintenance as these packages are in fairly good shape anyway. > > My only concern is the link with DejaVu font maintainer(s) which you > maintained quite well. Do you think you could at least keep this (that > would leave you involved)? I'm still on #dejavu , so I'll be glad to keep the connection if it can be of any help. > > I would be glad to see someone stepping in as "main" maintainer for > both these packages. It's really a work that is needed and this is a > recognized work. Please feel free to step up. might be worth checking if Eugeny is interested in stepping up: I guess he'd probably be very appropriate for this, since he contributes ALOT to the dejavu package. He's not on irc right now but I'm CC'ing him > There are a few things to work on for both, such as the package rename > to fonts-* (which is maybe not trivial given that both packages are > quite widely used) and a few other things. So, really, these are good > packages for people who would like to be more invested in Debian. Thanx alot Davide
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