Hi, I sent an RFS recently, but got no answers. Reading the thread about the "Analysis of the RFS process", and I understand that mentoring takes time and therefore, mentors are careful when choosing a maintainer and his package.
Therefore, here are some information about my package and myself: The project is a small XML library that implement parsing, creation and modification of an XML tree following a DOM-like model. It was first designed for embedded systems: - small binary - low RAM footprint - fast processing The second goal was to have a simple library with a few functions so that it is easy to use. Each function does only 1 thing and there are less than 30 API functions. This makes it in my opinion a good choice for any project that needs to deal with some XML files, but doesn't need the full libxml2. The whole library is written in C and is, I think, simpler than tinyxml. Indeed, to be simple, fast and small, there must be a trade of: the XML specification is not fully implemented (no DOCTYPE support for instance), also only basic xpath processing is implemented (not all xpath functions are available). Still this is usually enough for most of the use cases. I started to develop libroxml in the end of 2008 and worked on it on a regular basis since then. I have been fixing issues as they were submitted by the users of the library with reasonable delays, depending on my availability, but always responded and took care of bug fixing as quickly as I could. I am not planning on quiting the project anytime soon, and even though there might not be new feature (I don't want to add tons of functions), I'll always work on improving stability and performances. I packaged the library as a Debian package since the beginning and got more and more used to the Debian maintainer process. I now build each release using pbuilder and check the resulting packages with lintian. I hope that I am now doing everything that is required to match the Debian standards, but I am welcoming any comments. Pushing this package to debian is for me a first step in starting to work with the Debian project, and contributing to the opensource community. Best regards. Tristan Lelong 2013/9/16 Tristan Lelong <[email protected]> > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "libroxml". > > * Package name : libroxml > * Version : 2.2.3 > * Upstream Author : Tristan Lelong <[email protected]> > * URL : http://www.libroxml.net > * License : GNU LGP v2.1+ > * Section : libs > > It builds those binary packages: > libroxml0 - xml parsing / creation / edition library > libroxml-dev - development files for libroxml0 > libroxml-dbg - debug libroxml > > Libroxml is a xml library designed originaly for embedded systems > (included in buildroot and oe-classic). It is small yet powerfull, and > handle parsing / creation / edition of xml document with a very simple C > API. Therefore it can be used easily in any kind of projects. It also > include a small CLI xpath resolver. > To read more about this package, please visit: http://www.libroxml.netand > http://libroxml.googlecode.com > > This is my second RFS for this package. The first one allowed me to > correct several problems (lintian warnings, license version coherency). > I then took some time to improve the libray (handle namespaces, improve > CDATA, various bugfixes), and I think I am now ready to submit it again. > I already opened the RFP bug: #574668 > > One can download the package with dget using this command: > > dget -x > http://debian.libroxml.com/mirror/pool/contrib/libr/libroxml/libroxml_2.2.3-1.dsc > > I would be very pleased if some could mentor me to add this package to the > debian project. > > Best regards >
