Re: packages for adoption: icu, tiff, xerces-c, psutils

2015-02-14 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Richard Winters r...@mmogp.com wrote: I'm not a 'debian' maintainer or developer...total newbie to alioth - but I'm a c++ developer with over 10 years experience. I'm experienced with linux and more specifically debian development (just not officially).

Re: packages for adoption: icu, tiff, xerces-c, psutils

2015-02-14 Thread Richard Winters
Hello Kamaraju, Thank you for that information I am checking it out at this time! Best, *Richard B. Winters* On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 10:51 AM, kamaraju kusumanchi raju.mailingli...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Richard Winters r...@mmogp.com wrote: I'm not a

Re: packages for adoption: icu, tiff, xerces-c, psutils

2015-02-12 Thread Ian Jackson
Jay Berkenbilt writes (packages for adoption: icu, tiff, xerces-c, psutils): The other two packages are relatively low-effort packages to maintain. The psutils package is dead upstream though there is someone out there who might be interested in taking over upstream. I would introduce him

Re: packages for adoption: icu, tiff, xerces-c, psutils

2015-02-12 Thread Jay Berkenbilt
Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk wrote: Jay Berkenbilt writes (packages for adoption: icu, tiff, xerces-c, psutils): The other two packages are relatively low-effort packages to maintain. The psutils package is dead upstream though there is someone out there who might be interested

Re: packages for adoption: icu, tiff, xerces-c, psutils

2015-02-11 Thread Ondřej Surý
JFTR I sent email to tiff RFA and I am willing to take over it. Thank you, Jay, for all your hardwork on libtiff4-libtiff5 transition (and also for the rest of your packages). If you don't get any volunteers for the rest, please ping here and me again after jessie release (instead of orphaning

Re: packages for adoption: icu, tiff, xerces-c, psutils

2015-02-11 Thread Jay Berkenbilt
Ondřej Surý ond...@sury.org wrote: JFTR I sent email to tiff RFA and I am willing to take over it. Thank you, Jay, for all your hardwork on libtiff4-libtiff5 transition (and also for the rest of your packages). If you don't get any volunteers for the rest, please ping here and me again

Re: packages for adoption: icu, tiff, xerces-c, psutils

2015-02-11 Thread Richard Winters
Hey there: Posting again because I didn't hit reply-all (sorry, but would rather advertise Im available for help to the whole mailing list.) I'm not a 'debian' maintainer or developer...total newbie to alioth - but I'm a c++ developer with over 10 years experience. I'm experienced with linux

Re: packages for adoption: icu, tiff, xerces-c, psutils

2015-02-11 Thread Richard Winters
Jay, Thank you for that good sir, I will do just that (I'm sure by the time I wrap my head around orchestrating a transition of ICU to version 54.1; someone would have taken over - and perhaps I'd be able to contribute through them at that time and work my way up to a co/maintainer over time).

Re: packages for adoption: icu, tiff, xerces-c, psutils

2015-02-11 Thread Jay Berkenbilt
Richard Winters r...@mmogp.com wrote: Hey there: Posting again because I didn't hit reply-all (sorry, but would rather advertise Im available for help to the whole mailing list.) I'm not a 'debian' maintainer or developer...total newbie to alioth - but I'm a c++ developer with over 10

packages for adoption: icu, tiff, xerces-c, psutils

2015-02-11 Thread Jay Berkenbilt
I have four packages that I'd like to give away. If I don't find a new maintainer for them, I may orphan them after jessie is released since I no longer have time to maintain them. I have been maintaining these packages for a long time (over 10 years in some cases), and all four packages are in