On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 01:09:38AM +0200, Torsten Marek wrote: > I read about the job offers on the web page and I'd like to join the team. I'm > about to finish my NM process and I'd like to work on the Debian packages. I > also have experience with Python and C++-to-Python bindings, so if you need > help > with the Python bindings, I'd like to jump on the train as well.
Hi Torsten, This is exciting! Thanks for joining and welcome in! Let me brief you (and the list) of the recent plans we (me and mornfall) have for libdebtags. Basically, we're planning to merge it into libapt-front. The rationale is that all the logic is implemented using generic programming in libtagcoll1, so that it can be reused in all sorts of applications. libdebtags1 was only containing the thin layer that specialises libtagcoll1 for the case of Debian packages. Since libapt-front seems to be THE WAY of accessing Debian package informations, the idea is to move that thin layer just inside libapt-front. Also, libdebtags alone now only knows of package names as strings, which isn't very useful. The 'debtags' commandline tool needs libapt-front already. So, there is this merge coming. I'll probably work on it tomorrow. This could mean that you could do the bindings work on libapt-front instead of libdebtags, and get both. Michael Vogt was interested on python bindings for libapt-front as well, but he doesn't seem to have the time for it right now, so you could really step in. As for packaging, Simon Richter recently joined the comaintainance team, and there is sure space for a third. As soon as we finished all the rounds of refactorings (which is hopefully near the end of this week) there will be a big round of uploads to make; that can be the opportunity to bring the comaintainance team together. In the meantime, everything is on svn trunks on alioth: feel free to have a look, ask questions, and post patches as you see fit. Ciao, Enrico -- GPG key: 1024D/797EBFAB 2000-12-05 Enrico Zini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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