Unfortunately, due to various reasons I have been unable to dedicate as much time and effort as HPLIP and amavisd-new require, lately (as in I couldn't dedicate any effort to them, really).
Both of these packages are team-maintained in alioth (pkg-hpijs and amavisd-new projects, respectively), but none of the other maintainers are much active either. This means that right now, they are gathering cowebs, and this is *not* nice. So, this mail is a request for new maintainers for both hplip and amavisd-new. I will still be around to offer advice when needed, and help with any doubts about the current state of the packages. But I very much doubt I will be able to seriously work on hplip in the next months. amavisd-new is easier, so I might get it cleaned up and uploaded in the next month, but it *really* could use an extra maintainer or two. The requirements for HPLIP maintenance are python, some C, and good autoconf+automake+Makefile housekeeping skills (the entire autotools and makefiles need cleanup, resync to upstream, etc). You will be able to work with amazing people upstream and downstream. The requirements for amavisd-new is a good grasp of perl and email infrastructure, and the usual careful attitude one should have when dealing with packages that are often mission-critical. Upstream is very helpful, active, and friendly. If anyone is interested, please send me your alioth logins. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh
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