Hey there: Posting again because I didn't hit reply-all (sorry, but would rather advertise I"m 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 and more specifically debian development (just not officially). That said I'd love to get involved with Debian development -> I love debian and live by it. Anyone willing to lemme help out would be great. I check on alioth often...projects never seem to be posted for help...as a newbie I'm confused how to get started -> I've read documentation yet most of these emails looking for helping or specifying a package to be orphaned require a dev or maintainer....some of the packages I've looked into helping out with either dont have a buglist or are severely old and have dozens of helpers already. I offer my help here because I tend to need the ICU packages for building various things...if its gonna be orphaned I'd rather help out... Samples of work can be provided if needed. *Richard B. Winters* Chairman & CEO *Massively Modified, Inc.* MMod | Kwaeri *Phone*: (607) 431-8726 *Fax: *(877) 267-0412 *WebGL Engine (In Progress):* kwaeri Engine <http://kwaeri.mmogp.com/> On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 11:01 AM, Jay Berkenbilt <q...@debian.org> wrote: > 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 good shape. I have filed RFA bugs for each package. > > Two of the packages, tiff and icu, are important library packages with > lots of reverse dependencies and frequent security issues. They are > fairly low effort to maintain but require occasional surges of effort. > In particular, ICU gets two non-binary-compatible (soname bump) upstream > releases each year and requires regular coordination with the release > team and often some of its downstream packages. The tiff packages are > mostly inactive upstream but do get occasional upstream releases. > > 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 > to any new maintainer. The xerces-c package is a library package but a > pretty easy one as they go. It has few downstream packages within debian > and gets very infrequent upstream releases. > > All four packages are maintained with git-buildpackage, but right now > their repositories are in github because I switched all my packages over > to git-buildpackage during a time when alioth had extended downtime. > Pushing the repos over to a better/additional place is trivial, of > course. > > I have provided additional information in the RFA bug reports: > > icu: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=777694 > tiff: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=777695 > xerces-c: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=777698 > psutils: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=777699 > > -- > Jay Berkenbilt <q...@debian.org> >
