Re: ITP: r-cran-igraph -- GNU R package for igraph

[Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>]

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Hi Alba,

On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 04:08:02PM +0100, Alba Crespi wrote:
> Sorry for not answering you before, but until this week I was quite busy.

Fair enough - no problem for me.

> This week I was working again with the debian packaging.
> 
> First of all I would like to thank you for the igraph package, it seems
> working fine!

You are welcome.

> So, so far I started with the phangorn dependencies that weren't in debian
> (r-cran-fastmatch and r-cran-nnls) and I have uploaded to the debian
> mentors. And I am currently waiting for sponsor. I don't know if this
> should be part of the debian Med as well?

While these packages are not really medicine specific we usually also
maintain the necessary preconditions.  This helps us using all our
quality assurance tools and help to respond quickly.  For instance if a
team member might notice that a package needs to be updated it happens
that it is just done.  If you remain a single maintainer this goes
unnoticed.  For instance r-cran-igraph is a similar example why it is in
the Debian Med team.

So there are quite good reasons (I could give even more) to stick to the
team maintenance and I have a personal policy to sponsor only team
maintained packages (and I have also good reasons for it).  And I also
sponsor from the team VCS rather than mentors.  So while uploading to
mentors is OK but not required.  But if you want to get the packages
sponsored by a Debian Med team member please commit to our VCS.  If you
need any help how to do this we will luckily help you approaching this.

> An I guess that soon I will also have the r-cran-phangorn package ready. My
> question is if I should upload it in debian mentors as I did with the other
> two or should I do something different for becoming part of debian Med?

As I wrote below I have just added you to the Alioth team.  This grants
you commit permissions to Git and SVN.  Our team policy

   https://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/docs/policy.html

should have sufficient description how to work with these repositories.

If not ... please ask here and we try to sort out any problem as quick
as possible.

Kind regards and thanks for working on these packages

      Andreas.
 
> 2015-05-07 7:14 GMT+01:00 Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>:
> 
> > Hi Alba,
> >
> > its more than a month ago since we exchanged mails.  I have not seen any
> > commits of your code to a the Debian Med VCS.  Please keep me informed
> > about any trouble you might have.  The Debian Med team is very keen on
> > helping you to finalise your package.
> >
> > Kind regards
> >
> >         Andreas.
> >
> > On Sun, Apr 05, 2015 at 09:05:32AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > > Hi Alba,
> > >
> > > uhmm, your mail endet up in my SPAM folder - one more good reason to
> > > post to the public list to make sure your mail will be found soon by a
> > > responsible person. [So I keep the Debian Med developer list in CC :-)]
> > >
> > > On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 12:55:42PM +0200, Alba Crespi wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > 2015-04-01 6:43 GMT+02:00 Andreas Tille <andreas@fam-tille.de>:
> > > >
> > > > > I'm fine with this but could you please maintain phangorn in the
> > Debian
> > > > > Med team?  I have not found any Alioth login of yours
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > My alioth login is "albac-guest".
> > >
> > > Added to Debian Med.
> > >
> > > > I am happy in principle to join the
> > > > Debian Med team, but until now I have never used git, so I will need to
> > > > learn some new things to participate fully.
> > >
> > > In Debian Med we also support the option to use SVN at your preference.
> > >
> > > > This is also my first time
> > > > making Debian packages, so I think I need to start with one thing at a
> > > > time. :)
> > >
> > > While I also subscribe to the do one thing at one time I think using a
> > > Version Control System is evident for proper Debian package maintenance.
> > > Regarding learning Debian packaging you are really welcome in the Debian
> > > Med team since we have a good record in teaching newcomers.  You might
> > > like to consider joining "Mentoring of the Month"
> > >
> > >     https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/MoM
> > >
> > > and since it involves any kind of questions the usage of Git or SVN is
> > > included. :-)
> > >
> > > > When do you think that you will have time to upload an r-cran-igraph
> > > > package?
> > >
> > > Its in the new queue but new processing is currently quite low (which is
> > > probably due to the freeze of Jessie.  I hope that it will be faster
> > > again after the Jessie release.)
> > >
> > > Hope this helps
> > >
> > >      Andreas.
> > >
> > > --
> > > http://fam-tille.de
> >
> > --
> > http://fam-tille.de
> >

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