Re: roboptim-core_2.0-2_amd64.changes ACCEPTED into unstable
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 6:35 PM, Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
Hi Andreas,
> [in case you confirm that you are reading debian-science@lists.debian.org
> I'll stop CCing you as per list policy,]
You can drop the CC.
> On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 04:08:58PM +0900, Thomas Moulard wrote:
>> yes I would like to help having a better support for Robotics in Debian.
>
> Fine.
>
>> Actually all the packages I have uploaded so far are trying to go
>> toward this goal.
>
> Please check whether those packages are mentioned here
>
> http://blends.alioth.debian.org/science/tasks/robotics
>
> respective here.
>
> http://blends.alioth.debian.org/science/tasks/robotics-dev
>
>> I know in theory what is a blend but I have to admit I am not very
>> acquainted with
>> this idea. But I definitively think this is a good idea and I would
>> like to help.
>> Would you happen to have any pointer about how to make this happen?
>
> The main entry point is the Blends documentation[1].
>
>> BTW I sent this mail to the debtags-devel mailing-list asking for a
>> debtag, which
>> would be a good start IMHO:
>> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debtags-devel/2013-April/002211.html
>
> This is for sure a good idea. To clarify the relation between DebTags
> and Blends: In principle they are both approaching the goal to enable
> users finding easily the relevant packages in the huge pool of available
> software in Debian. While DebTags is a nifty technique in itself Blends
> try to be more than a way to work inside Debian by forming a team around
> a certain topic, creating strong relations between upstream and users
> and also developing some techniques (as they are explained in the Blends
> documentation[1] - basically metapackages and the web sentinel for the
> moment). We are constantly considering to include DebTags information
> into the Blends framework and there is ongoing dicussion about this on
> the Blends mainling list. Hopefully this years GSoC project will bring
> some result - so asking for DebTags is in line with the Blends work.
>
>> ...but it seems everyone was focused on the release so it did not get
>> any attention.
>
> Either this or it might be also a lack on manpower (which is very sad).
>
>> Any chance you could help me on this one?
>
> I have not yet spended a lot of time into DebTags so I'm not really an
> expert into this. What I just did is to create a new task in the Debian
> Science Blend named robotics-dev (and in the second link you visited
> above you can see the result of this). You can read more about these
> tasks which are influencing the metapackages as well as the web sentinel
> (see above). Currently this stuff is maintained in SVN[2] but as
> announced previously[3] I would like to move this to Git very soon since
> now Wheezy is released.
>
> To get commit permissions you need either be a Debian Developer or a
> member of the Blends team on Alioth[4]. For the moment it is perfectly
> fine if you check those two links to the web sentinel I have given above
> and tell me what (binary!) packages you are missing there and I could
> easily add them for you. Please note: If you are preparing some not
> yet uploaded package somewhere in VCS we could perfectly add these as
> well as so called "prospective packages" (see [1]).
Ok, I understand.
I will prepare an update for the robotics/robotics-dev blends and submit
it to you.
Best,
--
Thomas Moulard（ムラー トマ）
CNRS-AIST JRL (Joint Robotics Laboratory), UMI3218/CRT, Tsukuba, Japan
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