Re: Introduction and joining the debian-science/robotics team
Hello Anton,
I added the first package to salsa:
https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/ycm-cmake-modules/
This is basically just a collection of CMake modules that is a
dependency for most of our packages.
Can anyone review it please?
Thanks,
Daniele
On 27/08/2020 20:22, Anton Gladky wrote:
> Hello Daniele,
>
> welcome to the team!
>
> Feel free to create an account on salsa, request an access to the
> Science team and you can safely work on your packages there.
>
> When you are ready or have a question, you can always ask in a team. You
> will definitely find someone to communicate. Almost all robotics
> packages are successfully maintained in the science team.
>
> Please add your packages on salsa and ask for sponsoring, when you
> think, they are ready to be reviewed or/and uploaded.
>
> Best regards
>
> Anton
>
>
> Daniele E. Domenichelli <ddomenichelli@drdanz.it
> <mailto:ddomenichelli@drdanz.it>> schrieb am Mi., 26. Aug. 2020, 17:53:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm a technician/developer at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT)[1],
> and I'm working mostly on YARP (an open source middleware for
> robotics)[2,3] and in general on the on the software developed in the
> "robotology" GitHub organization[4] and running on the iCub[5] and R1[6]
> robots.
>
> I've been around Debian for a very long time, mostly as a user,
> reporting random bugs and in a few cases helping with a couple of
> packages. I'm also the maintainer of nifti2dicom[7] (which I haven't
> really updated in the last few years, since I'm no longer working in the
> neuroimaging field, but it is still working), and the former maintainer
> of gtkdataboxmm[8] which is no longer in Debian repositories.
>
> I was at the debian-science and debian-med BoFs at DebConf (drdanz),
> since I'm interested in packaging and maintaining a few packages from
> the "robotology" github organization (mostly developed here at IIT), and
> perhaps helping with some other robotics-related packages.
>
> I started working on a few of them but the YARP package turned out to be
> a lot more complicated than what I was expecting (I actually opened the
> original ITP in 2012, and I worked upstream little by little on fixing
> the issues that I found while trying to create the package).
> I now have a few working packages on an Ubuntu PPA[9], but I'm a bit
> stuck because I could not find any sponsor, I have lots of questions,
> and I'm still a bit confused by the Debian workflow.
>
> Therefore I was wondering if there is someone that would be available
> to mentor me through the process.
>
> These are the related bugs that I opened so far:
>
> * #682756: ITP: yarp -- middleware for humanoid robots
> * #934757: ITP: ycm-cmake-modules -- Extra CMake Modules for YARP and
> friends
> * #966342: RFS: ycm-cmake-modules/0.11.3-1 [ITP] -- Extra CMake Modules
> for YARP and friends
> * #969037: ITP: robot-testing-framework -- Robot Testing Framework
>
>
>
> I'm also looking for someone that would like to make a talk here at IIT
> (unfortunately online, due to the coronavirus, but we can eventually try
> to organize a visit later, when the pandemic is over), about
> Debian Science, Debian in general, and eventually make a
> small tutorial for beginners about how to start packaging.
> We produce a lot of software and libraries, but unfortunately we tend to
> build everything from sources on all our computers, therefore my goal is
> to persuade the people working here that proper packaging could help a
> lot our workflow.
>
>
> By the way, in case you have never heard about them, iCub is an open
> source (both hardware and software) humanoid robotic platform that we
> produce mostly for research and R1 is a recent effort to produce a "low
> cost" humanoid robot (unfortunately for this robot the hardware is not
> open).
> All the computers onboard and of the cluster connected to the robots run
> either Debian or in same cases ubuntu, with a few exceptions for
> computers running some specific software that runs only on windows,
> and researcher laptops that run whatever operating system the researcher
> chooses.
>
>
> Thanks in advance to anyone who will reply and will help me with the
> packaging.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Daniele
>
>
> [1]https://www.iit.it/
> [2]http://yarp.it/
> [3]https://github.com/robotology/yarp/
> [4]https://github.com/robotology
> [5]https://icub.iit.it/
> [6]https://icub.iit.it/products/r1-robot
> [7]https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/nifti2dicom
> [8]https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/gtkdataboxmm
> [9]https://launchpad.net/~robotology/+archive/ubuntu/test/+packages
>
Reply to: