Bug#823521: RFS: irstlm/6.00.05-1 -- IRST Language Modeling Toolkit

[Ghislain Vaillant <ghisvail@gmail.com>]

On 06/05/16 02:48, Giulio Paci wrote:
> On 05/05/2016 19:45, Ghislain Vaillant wrote:
> > On 05/05/16 17:16, Giulio Paci wrote:
> > > Package: sponsorship-requests
> > > Severity: normal
> > > X-Debbugs-CC: rbalint@debian.org
> > >
> > > Dear Balint,
> > >
> > > I am looking for a sponsor for an updated version of my package "irstlm"
> > >
> > >    * Package name    : irstlm
> > >      Version         : 6.00.05-1
> > >      Upstream Author : Marcello Federico <federico@fbk.eu>
> > >    * URL             : https://github.com/irstlm-team/irstlm/
> > >    * License         : LGPL-2.1
> > >      Programming Lang: C++, Perl, Bash
> > >      Description     : IRST Language Modeling Toolkit
> > >      Section         : misc
> > >
> > > This package includes latest upstream releases and several package updates.
> > >
> > > You can found the sources for the package and additional information at:
> > >
> > >     https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/irstlm.git/
> > >
> > > A review of the package is more than welcome.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >      Giulio Paci
> >
> > Hi Giulio,
> >
> > You might be interested to move this package to co-maintenance under the
> > Debian Science Team [1] and integrate it to one of the tasks [2] in the
> > future (perhaps the linguistics task [3]?).
>
> You are right, and it is my intention to do so in future.
> The only thing stopping me is that at the moment the sponsorhip for this package is working and I have very scarce time, so that I had not yet reread the rules of the team
> (last time I read them was a few years ago).

It is not that much overhead actually. You just need to join the team
on alioth, which will grant you access to the team's git repositories.
Then, you can move the packaging repository over, change the Maintainer 
field to "Debian Science Maintainers <debian-science-
maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>" and move yourself to the
Uploaders field.

That's it.

> Regarding the tasks, I think "linguistics" is fine. In addition, what about "machine learning" and/or "statistics"?
>
> How can I add them to the tasks? I have found this repository https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/blends/projects/science.git but no clear instructions.

This process is actually independent of having the package maintained
under the DST or not. However, you need to join the team to be able to
modify the task files. I can add the package to linguistics, machine
learning and statistics.

You might want to add some upstream metadata [1], so our sentinels can
display additional information about the software such as screenshots,
citations...

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamMetadata

Thanks for working on this package.

Cheers,
Ghis