Bug#846259: RFS: Juliar/0.0-12 [put in ITP, ITA, RC, NMU if applicable] -- New Programming Language

[Ghislain Vaillant <ghisvail@gmail.com>]

Just a few comments:

On 29/11/16 16:44, Juliar Programming wrote:
> Package: sponsorship-requests
>   Severity: normal [important for RC bugs, wishlist for new packages]

Juliar is not in Debian yet, is it?

>   Dear mentors,
>
>   I am looking for a sponsor for my package "Juliar":
>
>  * Package name    : Juliar
>    Version         : 0.0-12
>    Upstream Author : Andrey Makhanov <andreim@juliar.org <mailto:andreim@juliar.org>>
>  * URL             : https://www.juliar.org
>  * License         : GNU v3
>    Section         : 1
>
>   It builds those binary packages:
>
>     Juliar - a new Universal programming language that is cross-platform.
>
> It is a functional OOP programming language with an object structure similar to linux with ability to move between object of objects via ".." i.e.
>
> Juliar/object/../dir
>
>   It can be used for web-development, as a desktop application, and as console application. It can run in browser (client-side) as well.
>
> The application has a good Network library and has a concept of "universal" modules which allows one to create a module for example in Python, Ruby, Fortran, or C and then import it into Juliar.
>
> The Programming Language is fairly new and is currently up to Alpha 12.

Do we need such a young alpha release of a project (the project is just 
over a year old based on the GitHub graph), to be packaged in Debian? 
Perhaps in experimental, but I am skeptical in releasing this is into 
unstable.

> Although the application has been packaged before into a private apt repo. It would be great to make it available to the public.

What would a release in Debian bring in addition to the private apt 
repository. Why not just making your private repository public and 
provide the software to your community that way? Please be explicit.

> I really hope that someone will sponsor the package as the application has been in development for 1.5 years and has a growing community.
>
>   To access further information about this package, please visit the following URL:
>
>   https://www.juliar.org
>
>
>   Alternatively, one can download the package using instructions found at
>
>   https://www.juliar.org
>
>   More information about hello can be obtained from https://www.juliar.org
>
>   Changes since the last upload:

You should be closing an ITP bug at least [1].

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/ITP

Closing remark:

Why oh why naming a new programming language "juliar", when we already 
have the Julia and R languages...