Bug#736605: RFA: graphviz -- rich set of graph drawing tools

[David Claughton <dave@eclecticdave.com>]

On 25/01/14 14:28, Christoph Egger wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: normal
>
> Hi all!
>
>   Both, tokkee and myself, do not have the time to take care of
> graphviz (even if it's just being available for review and
> sponsoring). David may still be motivated, if so, please speak up!
> Still it's a somewhat complex library package and someone with upload
> priviledges helping him would certainly be usefull.
>
>   Christoph
>
> The package description is:
>  Graph drawing addresses the problem of visualizing structural information
>  by constructing geometric representations of abstract graphs and networks.
>  Automatic generation of graph drawings has important applications in key
>  technologies such as database design, software engineering, VLSI and
>  network design and visual interfaces in other domains. Situations where
>  these tools might be particularly useful include:
>  .
>    * you would like to restructure a program and first need to understand
>      the relationships between its types, procedures, and source files
>    * you need to find the bottlenecks in an Internet backbone - not only
>      individual links, but their relationships
>    * you're debugging a protocol or microarchitecture represented as a
>      finite state machine and need to figure out how a certain
>      error state arises
>    * you would like to browse a database schema, knowledge base, or
>      distributed program represented graphically
>    * you would like to see an overview of a collection of linked documents
>    * you would like to discover patterns and communities of interest in a
>      database of telephone calls or e-mail messages
>  .
>  This package contains the command-line tools.
Hi,

TBH, it is probably true that I have also not been able to find the time
recently to do justice to the package. 

I'll continue to try and complete the release currently sitting in the
git archive in time for Jessie, but if someone out there wants to take
over, I think it is probably time I handed over the reins.

Cheers,

    David.