Hello Anton, I added the first package to salsa:
https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/ycm-cmake-modules/ This is basically just a collection of CMake modules that is a dependency for most of our packages. Can anyone review it please? Thanks, Daniele On 27/08/2020 20:22, Anton Gladky wrote: > Hello Daniele, > > welcome to the team! > > Feel free to create an account on salsa, request an access to the > Science team and you can safely work on your packages there. > > When you are ready or have a question, you can always ask in a team. You > will definitely find someone to communicate. Almost all robotics > packages are successfully maintained in the science team. > > Please add your packages on salsa and ask for sponsoring, when you > think, they are ready to be reviewed or/and uploaded. > > Best regards > > Anton > > > Daniele E. Domenichelli <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> schrieb am Mi., 26. Aug. 2020, 17:53: > > Hello everyone, > > I'm a technician/developer at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT)[1], > and I'm working mostly on YARP (an open source middleware for > robotics)[2,3] and in general on the on the software developed in the > "robotology" GitHub organization[4] and running on the iCub[5] and R1[6] > robots. > > I've been around Debian for a very long time, mostly as a user, > reporting random bugs and in a few cases helping with a couple of > packages. I'm also the maintainer of nifti2dicom[7] (which I haven't > really updated in the last few years, since I'm no longer working in the > neuroimaging field, but it is still working), and the former maintainer > of gtkdataboxmm[8] which is no longer in Debian repositories. > > I was at the debian-science and debian-med BoFs at DebConf (drdanz), > since I'm interested in packaging and maintaining a few packages from > the "robotology" github organization (mostly developed here at IIT), and > perhaps helping with some other robotics-related packages. > > I started working on a few of them but the YARP package turned out to be > a lot more complicated than what I was expecting (I actually opened the > original ITP in 2012, and I worked upstream little by little on fixing > the issues that I found while trying to create the package). > I now have a few working packages on an Ubuntu PPA[9], but I'm a bit > stuck because I could not find any sponsor, I have lots of questions, > and I'm still a bit confused by the Debian workflow. > > Therefore I was wondering if there is someone that would be available > to mentor me through the process. > > These are the related bugs that I opened so far: > > * #682756: ITP: yarp -- middleware for humanoid robots > * #934757: ITP: ycm-cmake-modules -- Extra CMake Modules for YARP and > friends > * #966342: RFS: ycm-cmake-modules/0.11.3-1 [ITP] -- Extra CMake Modules > for YARP and friends > * #969037: ITP: robot-testing-framework -- Robot Testing Framework > > > > I'm also looking for someone that would like to make a talk here at IIT > (unfortunately online, due to the coronavirus, but we can eventually try > to organize a visit later, when the pandemic is over), about > Debian Science, Debian in general, and eventually make a > small tutorial for beginners about how to start packaging. > We produce a lot of software and libraries, but unfortunately we tend to > build everything from sources on all our computers, therefore my goal is > to persuade the people working here that proper packaging could help a > lot our workflow. > > > By the way, in case you have never heard about them, iCub is an open > source (both hardware and software) humanoid robotic platform that we > produce mostly for research and R1 is a recent effort to produce a "low > cost" humanoid robot (unfortunately for this robot the hardware is not > open). > All the computers onboard and of the cluster connected to the robots run > either Debian or in same cases ubuntu, with a few exceptions for > computers running some specific software that runs only on windows, > and researcher laptops that run whatever operating system the researcher > chooses. > > > Thanks in advance to anyone who will reply and will help me with the > packaging. > > > Cheers, > Daniele > > > [1]https://www.iit.it/ > [2]http://yarp.it/ > [3]https://github.com/robotology/yarp/ > [4]https://github.com/robotology > [5]https://icub.iit.it/ > [6]https://icub.iit.it/products/r1-robot > [7]https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/nifti2dicom > [8]https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/gtkdataboxmm > [9]https://launchpad.net/~robotology/+archive/ubuntu/test/+packages >
