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 Update: Ignore this, just a case of an outdated Wiki.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 dead. -- Brett M. Gilio

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

2020-10-13 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 09:52:24AM -0700, Dmitry Borodaenko wrote: > Sounds like your interests are relevant for the Debian Science team [2] > (which is marked dead) and Debian Science Maintainers team [3], getting > in touch with them would be a good place to start. Oops, messed up my

Re: Co-maintaining some packages

2020-10-13 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
On Fri, Oct 09, 2020 at 09:00:44PM -0500, Brett Gilio wrote: > I am a long term user of Debian GNU/Linux (and a regular contributor to > GNU Guix). I have been using Debian or some other variant of GNU/Linux > for 10+ years, in both professional and personal capacities. I notice > that some

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

2020-10-11 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2020-10-10, Brett Gilio wrote: > 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

Re: Co-maintaining some packages

2020-10-10 Thread Brett Gilio
Paul Wise writes: > Please take a look at our intro guide for getting packages into Debian: > > https://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers/ > Thank you for the information, Paul. I have reached out to an acquaintence to see if they will be a mentor to me. I will get in contact with those

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

Re: Co-maintaining some packages

2020-10-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Oct 10, 2020 at 2:00 AM Brett Gilio wrote: > I am a long term user of Debian GNU/Linux (and a regular contributor to > GNU Guix). I have been using Debian or some other variant of GNU/Linux > for 10+ years, in both professional and personal capacities. I notice > that some packages that I

Co-maintaining some packages

2020-10-09 Thread Brett Gilio
Hello all, I am a long term user of Debian GNU/Linux (and a regular contributor to GNU Guix). I have been using Debian or some other variant of GNU/Linux for 10+ years, in both professional and personal capacities. I notice that some packages that I depend on are not getting much attention, and I

Co-maintaining some packages

2020-10-09 Thread Brett Gilio
Hello all, I am a long term user of Debian GNU/Linux (and a regular contributor to GNU Guix). I have been using Debian or some other variant of GNU/Linux for 10+ years, in both professional and personal capacities. I notice that some packages that I depend on are not getting much attention, and I