I am currently maintaining a number of astronomy related packages. I am no longer working in astronomy though so I do not use any of these packages any more, I thus have no way of really testing them. I also do not really have the time to deal with them as I have taken on several more packages which I am more heavily involved with and am regularly using. With this in mind I would like to find new maintainers who can take some care over them, they are:
1) libastro-ads-perl - Modules for querying the Astrophysics Data System 2) libastro-catalog-perl - Generic O-O astronomical catalogue object. 3) libastro-dss-perl - Interface to the Digital Sky Surveys astronomical DBs. 4) libastro-simbad-perl - O-O interface to the SIMBAD astronomical database These 4 have the same upstream author, I am unsure as to whether they are still being actively developed as no activity has been seen on CPAN recently. 5) libastro-fits-header-perl - Tools for reading, modifying and writing FITS headers. Same author as above but seems to be actively developed, can be used in connection with Perl modules such as PDL. 6) libastro-fits-cfitsio-perl - Perl extension for using the cfitsio library. Different author, actively developed, depended upon by libastro-fits-header-perl so I would be interested in someone taking the two together. 7) libastro-waveband-perl - Transparent change between astronomical filter names, wavelength and frequency. Different author, actively developed, I think. 8) sextractor - Builds a catalogue of objects from an astronomical image. Different author, actively developed. There is a new version upstream which I have not had time to package as there are several big differences between current and new packaging. It now uses autoconf though which should simplify matters and the licensing is GPL now which is great. If any of the packages are unclaimed after a couple of days I will upload with the QA group as maintainer and file bugs. Thanks, Stephen Quinney
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