Hi Andreas, I checked my directories and I was using SVN and not GIT. SourceForge, the upstream repo, is at V6.0-003. debmed's SVN repo is at V6.0-001.
I'm still working on recollecting where I left off. thanks, Amul On Oct 22, 2013, at 7:25 PM, Amul Shah <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >>
