On 2 October 2014 at 09:24, Tim Haynes <thay...@openlinksw.com> wrote:
> > I'm working with the other VOS admin/developers here to get this branch >> > published on github, so that will at least give something concrete to >> test and >> > we can take it from there how it makes its way into Debian. >> >> Currently we are maintaining virtuoso in Debian (as part of the KDE team) >> just >> because nepomuk requires it, but as everything in KDE is moving to baloo >> and >> xapian, we plan to orphan virtuoso after the jessie release. >> >> Please, if you are interested in maintaining it consider I wouldnt mind to >> review the packages and speed the orphan/adoption. >> > > OK - development have a handful of tweaks to what I've done so far, so > it'll be a couple of days but thereafter, we'll take it on. > Hi all, OK, it's been a little more than a couple of days even by my standards. But we have things to show! The current develop/7 branch on github <https://github.com/openlink/virtuoso-opensource/> contains a completely revamped debian/ subdirectory; we've merged some aspects of work done for the LOD2 project and reviewed the existing Debian patches; the result is an upstream source tree that builds a pleasantly granular set of packages (server, minimal server, ODBC drivers, JDBC drivers, etc) natively. This will be included in release 7.2 due hopefully very soon. It seems this would be a fortuitous moment to ask: if I'm wanted to be regarded as the VOS maintainer in Debian, how do I go about officially signing on? Regards, ~Tim -- Tim Haynes Product Development Consultant OpenLink Software <http://www.openlinksw.com/> <http://twitter.com/openlink>
