Re: Bug#450876: RFH: ara -- utility for searching the Debian package database

[Berke Durak <obdurak@free.fr>]

On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 12:08:20AM +0200, George Danchev wrote:
> On Sunday 11 November 2007, Samuel Mimram wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > George Danchev wrote:
> > > Package: wnpp
> > > Severity: normal
> > >
> > > I request assistance with co-maintaining the ara source package. The
> > > package is in a good shape, but there are few wishlists bugs left in BTS,
> > > which need an experienced ocaml hacker to look at. Thanks.
> > >
> > > ara is hosted at svn.debian.org/svn/ara
> >
> > Maybe could we maintain it collaboratively within debian-ocaml-maint?
> 
> Hello Samuel,
> 
> It is not the repository that matters, the current one is just fine... also 
> ara has a pretty nice web page at http://ara.alioth.debian.org/, so I believe 
> we don't need reorganisation right now, but looking at the common/cli/gui 
> code and cleaning it up ;-) I guess that Berke won't mind to add more 
> developers with write access to the current ara svn repo who are ready to 
> improve the code.

Hello,

Sorry for the unresponsiveness :)  Of course I'd be glad to have
other people develop & maintain ara, no problem.

I can do a little maintenance but I have no plans for rewriting ara.

So who wants what access on the Alioth account, what do I have to do?

PS.  As you know I worked for the EDOS project for 18 months.  I started and
Jaap Boender continued libraries for package analysis.  I uncovered lots
of shortcomings in ara.  Mostly, it doesn't support multiple
architectures.

If someone wants to do a rewrite, I think it might be a good idea to use
the libraries developed for EDOS ("DOSE").  I think I managed to have a
more or less clean API (I rewrote it shortly before leaving the
project)...
-- 
Berke Durak