On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:43:30 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 04:57:38PM +0100, Giovanni Mascellani wrote: > > > I wonder whether you might consider team maintenance of this package > > > in the Debian GIS team. > > > > I'm already maintaining it under pkg-osm group in alioth. Of course I'm > > totally open to contribution coming from pkg-grass: if you feel it can > > be helpful, I've no objections to adding also pkg-grass to Uploaders. > > Ahhh, OK. I was just concerned about team maintenance in principle. > > However, I was not aware that a pkg-osm team exists at all. The > question is: Would it be an advantage to join with other GIS people. No. I created pkg-osm *after* joining debian-gis. This is because not all OSM-related software is GIS: I, for one, don't consider myself a GIS-guy, but rather an OSMer, and I understand a very small part of GIS, just those things that make me an über-OSMer. ;) Most packages are co-maintained by debian-gis and pkg-osm: a couple, however, have nothing to do with GIS. See osmpbf, or monav (both in NEW), or osm-gps-map. All of them are very OSM-focused ;) So, osmpbf is a perfect candidate for pure pkg-osm maintainance. About the critical mass: we're all the same people maintaining those packages. The OSM guys in debian-gis are mainly Giovanni and me, so it would be us maintaining those packages anyway ;) My 2€c, David -- . ''`. Debian developer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 ----|---- http://deb.li/dapal `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174
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