Hello, Sorry for the delay. I was out of town last week at a conference, and I have only now managed to tackle the large amount of email in my mailbox.
Earlier this spring, I had sincerely hoped to be able to spend the necessary time to get my packages updated, particularly nco and pcmcia-cs. Unfortunately, an unexpected personal emergency involving my family has prevented me from doing this. NCO is being actively developed upstream, and since I no longer use NetCDF as frequently since beginning my new job last year. I do not have the time to sufficiently maintain it. I would be pleased to hand over maintenance of the package to Charlie or Rorik. The pcmcia-cs package also needs significant work. Although I managed to fix numerous bugs in November, I have not been able to go through the laborious process of building a new set of modules. Since Per Olofsson has demonstrated high interest in this set of packages by corresponding on numerous bug reports, I recommend that he assume maintainership of the package. This package is very dear to me, since I have put in a considerable amount of work in the seven years that I actively maintained it. I would be honored to serve in an advisory role in the maintainership of this package; however, I simply do not have the time and resources now to build all of the sets of modules that are required. With nco and pcmcia-cs out of the way, my workload is much reduced. I should be able to handle the work required to maintain the remaining set of packages, which also have suffered neglect, since I have regarded them as lower priority than the two mentioned above. I am terribly sorry for the delay, and I am sorry that I have been unavailable for much of the spring. I am now available to answer questions and provide help or resources (such as the CVS repositories that I have maintained). Thank you, Brian Charlie Zender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm Charlie Zender, primary author of the netCDF Operators (NCO). > Brian Mays maintained the Debian NCO package for a number of years > until about two years ago. We thank him for pioneering NCO in Debian. > However, Brian has not kept track with the upstream version for about > two years. We (another NCO developer, Rorik Peterson, and I) > encouraged Brian to keep in sync with NCO releases numerous times. > > I followed these procedures for contacting inactive maintainers: > > http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-beyond-pkging.en.html#s-mia-qa > > A month ago I formally asked Brian to sponsor me and Rorik as the > Debian NCO maintainer. We heard nothing so two weeks ago we sent a > followup to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Again, no response from > Brian. Martin Michlmeyer verified that Brian has been busy and tried > to contact him as well. Still no word. > > I am now formally asking that Debian transition NCO maintainership > to me and Rorik Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> over some reasonable > timescale. Rorik and I are both Debian users. We implemented what > we feel is a high-quality, up-to-date, Debian compliant, package > for NCO and have been distributing from the NCO homepage: > > http://nco.sf.net#dbn > http://nco.sf.net/src/nco_2.9.6-1_i386.deb > http://nco.sf.net/src/nco_2.9.6-1.dsc > http://nco.sf.net/src/nco_2.9.6-1.tar.gz > > Please verify for yourselves the quality of the packaging and > let us know what you decide and whether we need to make any changes. > We are very eager to begin regular updates of NCO to Sid. > > Thanks, > Charlie > -- > Charlie Zender, [EMAIL PROTECTED], (949) 824-2987, Department of Earth > System Science, University of California, Irvine CA 92697-3100
