Hi Muammar, are you ready to move your packages to alioth git and Debian Science? Stretch will be released soon, after that I'm keen to update blacs-mpi and/or scalapack to build mumps and petsc on the minor architectures.
Drew On Mon, 2017-03-27 at 10:30 -0400, Muammar El Khatib wrote: > 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.
