Bug#783008: ITP: orocos-utilrb -- Ruby toolkit: collection of useful Ruby classes

[Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda <leo@alaxarxa.net>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: "Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda" <leo@alaxarxa.net>

* Package name    : orocos-utilrb
  Version         : 2.8.0
  Upstream Author : Orocos Developers <orocos-dev@lists.mech.kuleuven.be>
* URL             : https://github.com/orocos-toolchain/utilrb
* License         : CeCILL-B (BSD-like)
  Programming Lang: ruby
  Description     : Ruby toolkit: collection of useful Ruby classes

Utilrb is yet another Ruby toolkit, in the spirit of facets. It includes
all the standard class extensions used in other projects.

- why is this package useful/relevant? is it a dependency for
  another package? 

Yes, orocos-utilrb belongs to orocos-toolchain (as project)

- do you use it? if there are other packages providing similar functionality, 
  how does it compare?

We use it in our lab. Not known. Orocos developers use it.

- how do you plan to maintain it? inside a packaging team (check list at
https://wiki.debian.org/Teams)? 

Inside debian-science team. I have done a preliminary work in:

http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-science/packages/orocos/utilrb.git

- are you looking for co-maintainers? do you need a sponsor?

Yes, both. Any help will be welcome. All orocos-toolkit is a complex piece
of software.