Re: [Denemo-devel] debian maintainer?

[Richard Shann]

On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 20:59 +0200, Pietro Battiston wrote:
> Il giorno ven, 02/10/2009 alle 13.54 +0100, Richard Shann ha scritto:
> > On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 07:31 -0500, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> > > On Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:29:53 +0100
> > > Richard Shann <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I have seen this:
> > > > 
> > > > http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.bugs.dist/browse_thread/thread/5e8677fb33173f9b
> > > > 
> > > > indicating a maintainer is needed for the debian package. Can/should
> > > > we respond?
> > > 
> > > I guess I could step up and do it. I am a bit spread thin though as it
> > > is. 
> > Yes - don't spread yourself any further. I think a non-programmer could
> > do this.
> 
> Not really so sure, but certainly a non-denemo programmer could.
> 
> > Though I am not sure what is involved and what benefit it would
> > be to Denemo.
> 
> Huge, I suppose, if you want to get a huge share of the potential
> userbase (though I recognize you're not obliged to see this as one of
> your targets, it would surprise me if you didn't).
> 
> > There is someone interested who has pushed 0.8.something
> > into Denemo,
> 
> me
> 
> > I don't recall the name.
> 
> Pietro Battiston
> 
> > Perhaps this notice is about some
> > process that is ongoing anyway, retiring Gunter Geiger who is not
> > responding (?)
> 
> Actually Richard, thanks for the tip since I had not noticed the package
> had been orphaned.
> 
> It was me who tried to contact Gunter, with (almost) no success; that's
> why I took the time to upload 8.8.0.
> 
> Since I had some problems, that had to do with libjack, the current
> packaging is somewhat overcomplicated, that's why I would be happy to
> package the next version of denemo, in a way cleaner and more suitable
> to be left to a new maintainer.

If there is anything we can do in our git that will make it easier
please say. 

One of the things I notice is that people ask questions about Denemo in
many different places (Ubuntu forums etc) which would be better asked
here (perhaps it is the poor naming of this list?).

I use the current stable Debian distribution myself, to try to make sure
that the program is well tested there.

> 
> That said, I'm really not eager to be the new maintainer, as stated in
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2009/09/msg00123.html , 

in this post you mention C programming and debugging problems. Can't
problems that require debugging be put on our bug tracker?
(As I say, I don't really understand the issues around packaging ...)

Thank you for taking an interest.

Richard

> so I will
> not, for the moment, step in voluntarily, but I will if it ends to be
> necessary in order for denemo to stay in Debian.
> 
> bye
> 
> Pietro