Hi, just for the former virtuoso-opensource maintainers and the Debian Science team: I was seeking for a better team to revive virtuoso-opensource package. Since it is used in my institute for scientific purpose I think it is not really wrong inside the Debian Science team. As far as I know currently Alioth does not accept new projects so I'd like to profit from the open discussion on a public list - may be others become interested.
Will Daniels intends to work on it. Will, I have added you to the Debian Science team so you should have access now. (The easiest was on your side would be to edit .git/config the [remote "origin"] paragraph. On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 08:30:36PM +0100, Will Daniels wrote: > Hi Andreas, > > On 14/09/17 14:58, Andreas Tille wrote: > I have recovered access to my account and > requested to join collab-maint. > > Once that is approved, I think the approval to collab-maint is not really needed any more. > do I work on a separate branch or just push things to > master? Yes, please push to master. I do not see any point in using a separate branch. > > BTW, I think the Debian Science team is a sensible team for virtuoso and > > I plan to move the Git repository and more importantly our private > > discussion since I consider public discussion way more productive. > > Please be aware that from my next response on I intend to quote you in > > a publicly archived list. > > Noted and not a problem. I think there will be a few things to discuss as > there are some changes to the database format between 6 and 7 and I don't > have any idea myself about who is using Virtuoso and for what to make > decisions about the best way to handle the upgrade (i.e. upgrade > automatically, convert to column wise storage, any need to run both versions > side-by-side and so on). I personally (== without any knowledge about Virtuoso - I have heard the first time from this project when my colleague asked me to try packaging the recent version) would say: We definitely need an upgrade path but I do not think parallel installation of two versions is an objective we should gain for. > IIRC there are some additional VAD packages that can be built from the > upstream source that are not included in debian. I used to build them for my > own PPA on Launchpad so it would be no trouble to add them, but I don't know > if the typical use case for Virtuoso really involves using the OpenLink web > applications? Also my personal opinion: I usually package as *official* packages what I'm using personally. In all cases these packages found other users. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de