Re: Freecad is looking for new maintainers

[Filippo Rusconi <lopippo@debian.org>]

Greetings, Anton,

thank you for your message.

On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 06:58:23PM +0200, Anton Gladky wrote:
> Hi Filippo,
>
> surely you can join the team and help to maintain the package.
> The package itself is relatively large, but there are not so much
> problems with it usually. After new version 2-3 uploads are enough
> to bring it to the stable state. It is not mandatory to be a Python
> expert to maintain it.
>
> I am not leaving the science team at all. I will continue to maintain
> some science-packages and can surely help if I can to give some advices
> about Freecad packaging. But I think science team has a lot of highly
> qualified people who can take care of it. My focus though is due to
> the professional changes is shifted.
>
> Very important that the upstream is very responsive and it is always
> pleasure to work with them. The main problem now is to port it on
> Qt5, because Qt4 is EOL. But AFAIK the upstream is working hard
> to provide its migration.

Then I'll certainly be happy to contribute. I'll start by running
dpkg-buildpackage on my own and understand the rules file.

Thank you,

Cheers,
Filippo

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