Hi, by way of a head's-up, the UbuntuGIS team have secured a Google Summer of Code student to work for the summer improving and updating their .deb packaging, and with an eye to setting up a repository for new software releases backported to Wheezy.
"Enhancements to the DebianGIS and UbuntuGIS packages and repositories" https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2013/jlarouche/16001 Jérôme starts coding shortly, mentored by Alan and Daniel. The more we help the better results for everyone. see some community wishlist and discussion of goals here: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.osgeo.ubuntu/474 I believe the UbuntuGIS mailing list should be the primary place for discussions about the project itself. It involves us, and there's a good chance that one of $your packages will be altered, so I hope interested parties will be available to give Jérôme a hand when he needs it and provide some guidance about what we want pushed upstream to us and what our DebianGIS- stack plans are. (no point in duplicated effort or lots of work put into an area which we've taken a strategic decision to bypass) the timing wrt the debian release cycle is pretty great, I hope we can make good use of this opportunity. Communication, as always, is key. regards, Hamish -- OSGeo Google Summer of Code co-admin OSGeo Live-DVD chief-somethingorrather -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
