Re: Welcome to Debian Astronomy!

[Michael Olberg <olberg.michael@gmail.com>]

On 2014-03-23 14:45, Ole Streicher wrote:
> Dear astronomy enthusiasts,
>
> the Debian Astronomy list was just created. This is a major step for an
> astronomy specific Debian Blend.
>
> The list has been created to concentrate the discussion about how to use
> Debian in Astronomy, which packages we need, helping people in using
> astronomy related packages, helping to get software packaged etc. Please
> subscribe, fill the list with interesting discussions, and spread the
> existence of the list to your colleagues and friends.
>
> Information and subscription may be done at
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-astro/
>
> So far, we have now three mailing lists:
>
> * debian-astro@lists.debian.org - the users and developers discussion list.
>
> * debian-astro-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org - Maintainer of
> astronomy related packages in Debian. Info and subscription:
> https://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-astro-maintainers
>
> * debian-astro-commits@lists.alioth.debian.org - automated VCS commits
> for our packages. Info and subscription:
> https://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-astro-commits
>
> The alioth project page for our project is at
> https://alioth.debian.org/projects/debian-astro/ .
>
> Best regards
>
> Ole
This morning I tried to join the project on alioth. I created an account 
(username olberg-guest) and then submitted the following comment in the 
"Request to join project Debian Astronomy & Astrophysics" form:

"I am working at Onsala Space Observatory, the Swedish national facility 
for radio astronomy, operating two radio telescopes and a LOFAR station 
on site, and (with partners) the APEX telescope in Chile. We are also 
the Nordic ALMA Regional Center. I have some experience with Debian 
packaging, mostly maintaining packages for spectral line data reduction 
(xs: a package developed in house, and gildas: the Grenoble Image and 
Line Data Analysis Software developed at IRAM) for my colleagues using 
Ubuntu or Mint."

However, I almost immediately received "Your request to join the Debian 
Astronomy & Astrophysics project was denied by an administrator" :-(

What did I do wrong?

cheers,
Michael

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