Hi Andreas and Drew, On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 10:34:06PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi Muammar, > > On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 01:07:15PM -0400, Muammar El Khatib wrote: > > I have a series of packages that due to lack of time I am not catching > > to keep them in a sane state. The packages in question are: > > > > - blacs-mpi. > > - blacs-pvm. > > - scalapack > > > > I would like to move them to Debian Science team. > > That's a good decision. >
I also think it is the better. I do not have the same amount of free time to take care of them as before. > > Following Debian > > Science Policy Manual, I have sent a request to join the group. I > > would like to be still involved in the maintenance of them because > > they were my first packages... > > I do not think that the team will take the work from you - it is just > the you allow others to step at your side if there might be issues with > the package. > > > The following step would be to prepare them to be added to the version > > control system that you are using. Meanwhile, is there something else > > I should know about moving those packages into Debian Science?. > > Nothing special in addition to the team policy. Just ask here if > something might remain unclear. Thanks for the information!. For the moments, I am waiting to hear back from the application to the Alioth project. On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 08:16:55AM +0800, Drew Parsons wrote: > On Sat, 2017-03-25 at 13:07 -0400, Muammar El Khatib wrote: > > I would like to move them to Debian Science team. Following Debian > > Science Policy Manual, I have sent a request to join the group. > > That's great idea, thanks Muammar. It'll make it simpler for us to help > with patches and version updates. Yes, I am sure that the health of the packages will improve a lot once they are moved to the team. > > > I > > would like to be still involved in the maintenance of them because > > they were my first packages... > > Also great. Welcome to Debian Science :) Thanks! :). Best, -- Muammar El Khatib. Linux user: 403107. GPG Key = 71246E4A. http://muammar.me | http://proyectociencia.org ,''`. : :' : `. `' `-
