On 1 February 2005 at 14:46, Martin Michlmayr wrote: | * Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-01-15 11:51]: | > Please CC me on follow-ups to debian-devel, or email me directly if | > you have any interest. I should follow up with RFA and O bug reports | > over the next few weeks, but doing this informally first may be | > simpler. Or maybe not. | | Did you keep track which packages have been spoken for and for which | you still need to file RFA or O reports?
Sorry for not replying sooner, but I was under the weather with some sort of flu and slept every non-work hour of the last two days. | It seems at least tob is still outstanding. Gunnar Wolf seemed | interested in some of the Perl packages but it's not quite clear to me | which he'll actually adopt. I'll quote from my original email and then summarise by paragraph: On 15 January 2005 at 11:51, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | * the Octave complex -- is now in the hands on the pkg-octave-devel group with octave2.1 as the first (and only, so far) release. Thanks to Rafael for organising and spear-heading this. | * the gsl set: -- is still mine though Bas Zoetekouw indicated that he would like to help. I think I got Chris Steigies to agree to help too. | * the Perl "spreadsheet" complex: | - spreadsheet-writeexcel | - spreadsheet-parseexcel (2 old open bugs, forwarded ages ago) | - ole-storage-lite | - dbd-excel (1 old open bug, forwarded) -- was picked up en bloc by Gunnar Wolf, and already uploaded. Thanks, Gunnar! | * other Perl packages: | - dbd-odbc | - finance-streamer | - inline-octave [ related to Octave ] | - math-numbercruncher | - statistics-descriptive Still up for grabs. Only dbd-octave had upstream releases lately -- and should find a new home. The others are more esoteric. If it gets too bad I can always orphan them later. | * bc (with binary packages bc and dc) -- picked up with an immediate upload by John Hasler. Thanks, John! | * Miscellaneous | - afio (2 open bugs, active upstream, pretty straightforward) Picked up Erik Schanze who already uploaded a new package with several patches that have since been blessed upstream. Thanks, Erik! (Eric is not a full DD, if his AM reads this, my thumbs up!) | - time (dead upstream) -- picked up by Tollef (no new upload yet). Thanks, Tollef! | - tob (fairly dead upstream despite CPR and a new upstream author recently) -- still mine, but not that much work. | - wajig (very active upstream, and well maintained upstream) -- now officially Grahams, and I sponsor him -- Thanks, Graham!. Effectively, that is what have done for the last one or two years anyway. (Graham is not a full DD, if his AM reads this, my thumbs up!) I still have approx 70 other packages ... Dirk -- Better to have an approximate answer to the right question than a precise answer to the wrong question. -- John Tukey as quoted by John Chambers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
