Hi Julien, On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 05:23:04PM +0100, Julien Puydt wrote: > wnpp-alert showed me scilab was 'O', so I came to look ; from what I see > on bug #744140 : > - Sylvestre put it under RFH and as nobody answered, proceeded to O. > - Wolfgang came in to ITA, got sidetracked ; > - Wolfgang came back, created the git repo, got sidetracked ; > > but in fact, looking at the git repo and the package page: > - the git repo hasn't been touched since more than a year ; > - the svn repo got regular contribution and is used to maintain the > package by several people (Gilles Filippini and Sébastien Villemot) > under the Debian Science Team umbrella. > > Finally the upstream homepage says 6.0.0 is out since february. > > So my questions are: > - is it O or not? > - who's working on packaging 6.0.0? > - is it normal that a package under the Debian Science Team umbrella > still uses svn? I indeed made a few contributions to scilab, but limited to QA work. I don’t intend to do the usual maintenance work, nor am I working on packaging 6.0. So I should not be counted in. Best, -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Sébastien Villemot ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian Developer ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ http://sebastien.villemot.name ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ http://www.debian.org
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