Hi Jon, hi List, finally I find the time to answer to this thread. Sorry for delay. I have been travelling a lot within the last few weeks meaning that I had rarely the opportunity (and time) to read and answer emails. On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 07:14:51AM -0800, Jon Saints wrote: > I am willing to take on GDAL. I however will be > traveling for one month and out of email range. > > Upon my return I can work with you to provide future > GDAL packages in the formats that you requested. > > The group should decide this though. Jon, I thank you very much that you are willing to take the primary maintainance for gdal. I really hope that I will come back to a more active role in debian-gis again. The chances are good because I will have a long vacation starting from tomorrow but I am really not sure about it. Greetings, Silke > > Jon > > --- Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> wrote: > > > [Jon Saints] > > > Could either Peter or Francisco upload debiangis > > gdal 1.3.1 to > > > Debian unstable for us? > > > > > > Last I remember hearing on our list (correct me if > > I am wrong), > > > Silke Reimer was looking for debianGIS support to > > maintain GDAL. > > > Its really up to our group to keep this package > > alive. > > > > Sorry for the long delay. I've been occupied with > > real life. :) > > > > I am willing to sponsor packages, but not willing to > > take over the > > maintenence. I've got too many other things going > > on, so I would do a > > bad job if I tried to maintain more packages. > > > > When sponsoring, I prefer being approached by the > > package maintainer > > on IRC (pere on #geo/irc.oftc.net) with the URL to > > where the package > > can be downloaded. This is a low-overhead solution > > to me, and I do > > not accumulate a large backlog of request for > > sponsoring (as would > > happen if I tried to gather sponsor request using > > email. :). > > > > The packages should be lintian clean and tested in > > pbuilder or > > similar, to make sure the dependencies are correct > > and obvious > > problems are found. I primarily sponsor packages > > going into > > debian/main, so if the package isn't acceptable for > > main, there is > > normally no need to approach me. > > > > Who is the new primary maintainer of gdal in debian? > > Group > > maintenence is good, as it make it easier to get new > > people involved > > in maintaining packages, but someone need to take > > responsibility for > > coordinating the effort. Jon, is that you? Is the > > gdal source in the > > Debian GIS cvs? > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Pkg-grass-general mailing list > > Pkg-grass-general@lists.alioth.debian.org > > > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-grass-general > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pkg-grass-general mailing list > Pkg-grass-general@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-grass-general -- Intevation GmbH Georgstrasse 4 49074 Osnabrück, Germany http://intevation.de http://intevation.de/~silke FreeGIS.org http://freegis.org/
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