On 2005-06-07 18:46:08 +0200, Christian Perrier said: > geneweb is an Ocaml program. Maintaining it does not require any > special Ocaml knowledge as upstream is heavily involved in Ocaml > development and there is a pretty good Ocaml team in Debian to help > out with tricky issues. The maintainer scripts are the most > "complicated" part of this package, which uses debconf to input for > several settings. Magni Onsoien has expressed some interest to take > part of its maintenance. Among these 3 packages, geneweb is probably > the one which has the largest amount of users. Maintaining a non > official sarge backport of new upstream versions as I did during the 3 > years of sarge development is also an interesting activity (though not > mandatory, of course). Given that it launches a daemon at startup, > this package is the most exposed to security concerns. > > lifelines is probably the simplest package of the three. It is a well > maintained C program with low upstream activity, but good > responsiveness. It does not indeed require much attention...:-)
I am using geneweb myself now, and since I have been looking for a package to adopt that I am using myself I'd like to take some responsibility for it. But it will be my first package so if someone more experienced wants to co-maintain, I'm happy with that, too. (I may need some more time to actually do things since I need to find out how to do them first, so a slightly patient co-maintainer would be nice :-)) I haven't used lifelines myself, but it looks like an intersting piece of software and probably something I would have used myself if it wasn't my father I was primarily setting up the genealogy db for. So I would be interested in maintaining also this package. > In all cases, I will *not* just throw away the packages as soon as > someone has expressed interest. I am ready to help the new maintainer > as widely as possible to give her/him a good knowledge of the > package. Several months of collaborative maintenance are absolutely > possible. More than one maintainer is also welcome. Long-term > sponsoring is also an option. This sounds good :-) I will need a sponsor for a while, since I am not even in the NM queue yet. Magni :) -- sash is very good for you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
