Thanks for picking up my slack Andreas. I am in fact quite swamped with work. Did you upload from Git or did you upload from SVN? Did you commit your changes?
While I have new man pages. Any new user to GT.M is always going to have a steep learning curve. Luis, thanks for getting us started with a README. If I recall correctly, the last version of GTM in git is V6.0-002. I will upgrade to latest version tonight. Amul > On Oct 22, 2013, at 5:18 PM, Luis Ibanez <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Andreas, > > Many thanks for moving forward with the package, > and doing the clean up and upload. > > I'm sure that Amul remains interested, and he is most likely > swamped in day-to-day work. > > We are happy at Kitware to help move the package forward. > > In particular, I'll be happy to help test the package, especially with > the classes that I'm teaching at Rensselaer Polytechnic and at > SUNY Albany, where we are introducing MUMPS in the curriculum. > > > I can start by writing the: > > README.debian > > > This is in fact related to the several M/MUMPS tutorials that we > have been preparing and delivering at RPI and SUNY in the past > two years: > > http://www.opensourcesoftwarepractice.org/M-Tutorial/ > http://www.opensourcesoftwarepractice.org/OSDB-Tutorial/M/index.html > > both of them hosted in Github: > > https://github.com/SUNY-Albany-CCI/open-source-databases-tutorial > https://github.com/SUNY-Albany-CCI/M-Tutorial > > -- > > Looking at: > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/dother.en.html#readme > It seems like I should add it to the debian directory in the SVN repository. > > I'll start doing that right away. > > It will essentially contain this environment configuration: > http://www.opensourcesoftwarepractice.org/OSDB-Tutorial/M/Installation.html#environment > that a user should do, just after installing the package. > > > It is very exciting to see the package moving forward in the pipeline. > > > Many Thanks > > > Luis > > > >> On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Andreas Tille <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Luis, >> >> since for me no answer (in this case no answer from Amul) means: "Just >> do whatever you want to do" I decided to do something and polished the >> package lintian clean and decided to upload. The package is from my >> point technically at some level that can be thrown at the users for >> testing and considering that ftp new queue currently takes some time we >> might have something to throw at a dedicated user base perhaps in >> November. This at least fits my planed timing even if I'm not happy >> documentation wise.s >> >> The package is IMHO a horror for the uneducated user (without any first >> entry documentation like a README.Debian and things like this) and there >> is even no "command you can start straight from /usr/bin". This is kind >> of very untypical but proably fis-gtm is an untypical package in itself. >> We *really* need to trust on the thorough checking of the package from >> people from kitware (or other fis-gtm developers) once it arrives in >> unstable just to make sure that it really does what it is expected to >> do. Currently the upload was the only option I have seen to push things >> reasonably forward. >> >> I hope this is in you interest. >> >> Kind regards >> >> Andreas. >> >> >> On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 10:53:05AM -0400, Luis Ibanez wrote: >> > Hi Amul, >> > >> > >> > Just to second Andreas, >> > >> > >> > Please note that we at Kitware will be happy >> > to help move the package forward. >> > >> > For example, if a Hackathon can help, >> > we will be glad to put one together. >> > >> > >> > Best, >> > >> > >> > Luis >> >> -- >> http://fam-tille.de >
