Re: Bye bye Debian Science
On 06/02/2015 10:38, Ghislain Vaillant wrote:
> Hi Sylvestre,
>
> That's very sad to hear, but I guess you must be pretty busy at Mozilla.
>
>> thanks for the folks who are actively working on this key packages
>
> Are there any of the packages you used to work actively on in need for
> additional maintainers or adoption ?
I am still maintaining arpack (I am doing the upstream too but just doing background
maintenance).
AFAIK, gtkmathview, jeuclid, jhdf and libcgns don't have new maintainers.
If there are volunteers for Scilab, I would be happy to work with them.
>> I would like to take this opportunity to ask if someone would like to
> have admin permissions on alioth to manage the registrations (for now,
> we are only two admins and the other is as inactive as I am).
> Ideally, this person should be motivated to "reboot" the Debian Science
> team. The policy should be improved, the package list cleaned up, etc.
>
> How much work do you reckon this task would require ?
Not a crazy amount of time. I see a few tasks:
* improving the wiki and the policy (as probably first task)
* define a new sponsoring platform (just like the great work Andreas has been doing lately)
* cleaning some old and unmaintained leaf packages
* Fixing RC bugs
* Ask for a final removal of the alioth pkg-scicomp project (brings some confusions)
If you have more time, publish some monthly news about the team, organize some sprints, etc.
Cheers,
Sylvestre
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