Re: RFS: eprints
In response to Charles Plessy: No still haven't got a sponsor yet and I will keep the mentors site up to date with the progress of this package. Also many thanks for the hint, I will hit the debian-science list now. David Tarrant -- EPrints Debian Maintainer School of Electronics and Computer Science University of Southampton UK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RFS: eprints
Le Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 03:17:18PM +0100, David C Tarrant a écrit : Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package eprints. Making Research Freely Available - For many years we have been helping researchers and their institutions to provide free online access to their research output (documents, multimedia and data). Dear David, did you find a sponsor? If not, you can also try your luck on the debian-science mailing list. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RFS: eprints
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package eprints. Making Research Freely Available - For many years we have been helping researchers and their institutions to provide free online access to their research output (documents, multimedia and data). * Package name: eprints Version : 3.0.1-1 Upstream Author : Christopher Gutteridge * URL : www.eprints.org * License : GPL (v2 or later) Section : web It builds these binary packages: eprints- EPrints - Repository Management Software The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/e/eprints - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/e/eprints/eprints_3.0.1-1.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards David Tarrant -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RFS: eprints
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 03:17:18PM +0100, David C Tarrant wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package eprints. I don't see an ITP for this package. Making Research Freely Available - For many years we have been helping researchers and their institutions to provide free online access to their research output (documents, multimedia and data). This tells me nothing about what this package actually does. Is it some sort of document management system? Or something else entirely? * Package name: eprints Version : 3.0.1-1 Upstream Author : Christopher Gutteridge * URL : www.eprints.org * License : GPL (v2 or later) Section : web It builds these binary packages: eprints- EPrints - Repository Management Software This description is suboptimal. Don't repeat the package name in the short description, and consider the overloading of terms like Repository within Debian, and the possible confusion amongst users. I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. This package needs work before it is suitable for inclusion in the Debian archive. - Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RFS: eprints
Appologies if this starts a new thread my mail account is not recieving the replies. There is now an ITP for this package and i have included the closes line in the changelog. The bug is #171968 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=171968 * Package name: eprints Version : 3.0.1-1 Upstream Author : Christopher Gutteridge * URL : http://www.eprints.org * License : GPL (v2 or later) Section : web It builds these binary packages: eprints- Content Management System for Information Archiving EPrints is a web-based content management system. It allows a large number of contributors to share their digital objects/documents with others. Contributors provide descriptive data (metadata) which is dependent on the type of object being deposited (presentations, articles, books etc.). Before being published objects must be accepted by an editor. Users can access published objects through web-page listings, searches, email alerts or via integration with other systems. The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/e/eprints - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/e/eprints/eprints_3.0.1-1.dsc Many Thanks David Tarrant -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RFS: eprints
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 06:27:09PM +0100, David C Tarrant wrote: It builds these binary packages: eprints- Content Management System for Information Archiving EPrints is a web-based content management system. It allows a large number of contributors to share their digital objects/documents with others. Contributors provide descriptive data (metadata) which is dependent on the type of object being deposited (presentations, articles, books etc.). Before being published objects must be accepted by an editor. Users can access published objects through web-page listings, searches, email alerts or via integration with other systems. Tasty description. I like it. - Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RFS: eprints
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:27:09 +0100 (BST) David C Tarrant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The bug is #171968 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=171968 * Package name: eprints Version : 3.0.1-1 Upstream Author : Christopher Gutteridge * URL : http://www.eprints.org * License : GPL (v2 or later) Section : web Missing information: What language does this package use? I note that the ITP is very old (changed owner a few times) but it does specify it's a set of Perl scripts designed to run with Apache and mod_perl using a MySQL database. So I hope this isn't an old upstream depending on apache and not apache2. If it is a set of perl scripts, are there any modules that may deserve being split into other packages? All RFS emails should specify the language of the package because there are several teams in Debian dedicated to supporting maintainers of packages using that particular language - the Debian Perl group would be your first source of help with this package. Again, judging by the (old) ITP, you will *need* significant, maybe considerable, assistance to package this correctly : The installation is however quite complicated. Unless upstream have smoothed the process, that sounds like eprints should definitely request an overview from members of Debian Perl. (Not retitling the thread, I have no time to take on a complex Perl package right now - I have enough work rewriting the Perl cross-building support in Debian.) -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgp3jopL3NzRT.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: RFS: eprints
Missing information: What language does this package use? ok, en for a start, i'll look at updating this. I note that the ITP is very old (changed owner a few times) but it does specify it's a set of Perl scripts designed to run with Apache and mod_perl using a MySQL database. So I hope this isn't an old upstream depending on apache and not apache2. No you may notice the original request was for eprints 1 or 2, and the developers are now on version 3 and still going. I am not directly connected to the actual dev team but do a lot of the leg work. Eprints 3 works with apache2 and simply adds a config file to sites- available (which users enable when they have configured their install). If it is a set of perl scripts, are there any modules that may deserve being split into other packages? Not really, the developers picked perl as the language they wanted to code the package in and they have coded it in a modular way but there is no real benefit in haveing the modules packaged independently as they all require the eprints package anyway. There may be a possibility of having eprints-plugin-foo in the future as there are plugins available separately via the official package website. The package itself does depend upon a few perl modules being already installed to work and I have include these in the dependancies. All RFS emails should specify the language of the package because there are several teams in Debian dedicated to supporting maintainers of packages using that particular language - the Debian Perl group would be your first source of help with this package. Again, judging by the (old) ITP, you will *need* significant, maybe considerable, assistance to package this correctly : The installation is however quite complicated. Unless upstream have smoothed the process, that sounds like eprints should definitely request an overview from members of Debian Perl. The coders of this package are possibly more experienced than the person who originally posted to ITP and the installation process has improved. There are just a lot of dependancies which tend to scare people (especially redhat users). If you take a brief look at the rules file and post install scripts i think you will find that it isn't that complex. (Not retitling the thread, I have no time to take on a complex Perl package right now - I have enough work rewriting the Perl cross-building support in Debian.) I appreciate any advice you can offer on this package and anything which I need to work on in order to get it accepted into the package tree. Thanks in advance. --- David Tarrant EPrints Debian Maintainer School of Electronics and Computer Science University of Southampton Southampton SO17 1BJ UK - www.ecs.soton.ac.uk www.eprints.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---
