Re: Work-needing packages report for Oct 16, 2020

2020-10-15 Thread Brett Gilio
Paul Wise writes: > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.en.html#adopting-a-package > https://mentors.debian.net/sponsors/rfs-howto/ > Thanks a million, pabs! -- Brett M. Gilio bre...@gnu.org https://brettgilio.com/ E82A C026 95D6 FF02 43CA 1E5C F6C5 2DD1 BA27 CB87

Re: Work-needing packages report for Oct 16, 2020

2020-10-15 Thread Brett Gilio
w...@debian.org writes: > The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested > through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the > last week. > > Total number of orphaned packages: 1179 (new: 0) > Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 209

Re: Work-needing packages report for Oct 16, 2020

2020-10-15 Thread Brett Gilio
w...@debian.org writes: > The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested > through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the > last week. > > Total number of orphaned packages: 1179 (new: 0) > Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 209

Re: Co-maintaining some packages

2020-10-13 Thread Brett Gilio
Brett Gilio writes: > It sounds like the Debian Science Maintainers team uses > https://alioth.debian.org/, but that URL is not resolving. Update: Ignore this, just a case of an outdated Wiki. :) -- Brett M. Gilio https://brettgilio.com

Re: Co-maintaining some packages

2020-10-13 Thread Brett Gilio
Dmitry Borodaenko writes: > > Oops, messed up my references, above should read: "Debian Science > mailing list (which is marked dead)[2] and Debian Science Maintainers > team [3]" > > [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-science/ > [3] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience It sounds like the

Re: Co-maintaining some packages

2020-10-13 Thread Brett Gilio
Brett Gilio writes: > > Could you explain what "marked dead" means in this context? Is the > Debian Science team different from the Debian Science Maintainers team? > Thank you for clarifying the issue. Update, I see what you mean. The blend mailing list is marked dea

Re: Co-maintaining some packages

2020-10-13 Thread Brett Gilio
Dmitry Borodaenko writes: > > Generally speaking, the best way to set up collaborative maintenance for > such packages is to put them up on Salsa [0], for that you'll need to > convert them to Git packaging [1] if they aren't already on it (e.g. > blank VCS field for MLton tells me that it's

Re: Co-maintaining some packages

2020-10-11 Thread Brett Gilio
Vagrant Cascadian writes: > I've made a couple attempts at updating to a newer git snapshot, and > there's talk of a new guix release in the near future, so it might make > sense to wait for a release-candidate of guix before diving in too > deeply. Agreed, I will take the time to investigate

Re: Co-maintaining some packages

2020-10-10 Thread Brett Gilio
t with those necessary. Brett Gilio

Re: Co-maintaining some packages

2020-10-10 Thread Brett Gilio
Hey Vagrant, It is Brett Gilio. I pinged you on IRC last evening regarding advice for joining Debian in helping maintain some packages. Below I have Paul Wise's response to my inquiry, and was wondering if you would be willing to sponsor my work on some orphaned packages, as well as assistance

Co-maintaining some packages

2020-10-09 Thread Brett Gilio
helping with these three collections of packages would be a good first step into possibly helping Debian in the future. Thoughts? Brett Gilio bre...@gnu.org [0] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/mlton

Co-maintaining some packages

2020-10-09 Thread Brett Gilio
helping with these three collections of packages would be a good first step into possibly helping Debian in the future. Thoughts? Brett Gilio bre...@gnu.org [0] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/mlton