Bug#740678: Abiword maintainer

[Per Andersson <avtobiff@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Dmitry Smirnov <onlyjob@debian.org> wrote:
> Dear Carlo, Per and Jose,
>
> Thank you for your interest to Abiword.
>
> On Sat, 16 Aug 2014 15:35:20 Carlo Giordano wrote:
>> I want maintainer Abiword.
>
> Your help is very welcome.
>
>
>> Do you help me?
>
> I might be occasionally available for sponsorship and review of your changes.
> However my primary reasons for searching for (co-)maintainer(s) are lack of
> time and interest to Abiword...
>
> Here are some links that (I hope) you might find useful:
>
>     http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/index.en.html
>     http://wiki.debian.org/IntroDebianPackaging
>     http://wiki.debian.org/PackagingTutorial
>     http://wiki.debian.org/Packaging
>     https://mentors.debian.net/
>
>
>> On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 5:35 PM, Carlo Giordano
>> I would suggest that you maintain it in the Debian Junior Team.
>
> I don't know why Debian Junior Team might be interested to take care of
> Abiword. At the moment Abiword repository is at collab-maint where all DDs can
> contribute. For now let's keep repository where it is although I do not mind
> if Junior team will be listed as Maintainer and take over the packaging.
>
> Also please take care of "wv" dependency package.

The reason why Debian Junior is interested in abiword is because it is
in one of our metapackages: junior-writing. Since abiword was up for
adoption I thought you were going to leave it to its fate.

Perhaps it is better to not put Debian Jr as maintainers, since the team
so far is small and would rather like to focus on building the pure blend.

We will however help out if we can with packaging, packaging review,
and uploads.


--
Per


> Thank you.
>
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> Regards,
>  Dmitry Smirnov.
>
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