Hi, Continuing my efforts not to be listed as a maintainer for packages I don't really care about: There are a bunch of packages in the sci-geosciences category that I maintained a long time ago when I was active in the openstreetmap community. All of them are listed with the sci-geosciences project as a maintainer as well, so I'll just remove myself and leave the project maintainership in a few days. But if anyone wants to jump in feel free to take the packages (just remove me and add yourself in that case).
sci-geosciences/gebabbel Frontend for the tool gpsbabel. Strangely enough we have 0.4, while upstream seems only to have 0.3. There are no open bugs, so it seems a relatively stress free package and it can probably just stay the way it is. sci-geosciences/gpscorrelate Tool to add gps coordinates based on gpx tracks. No open bugs, latest version, so it seems stress free and can probably stay without a dedicated maintainer. sci-geosciences/josm The Java OpenStreetMap editor. It was the standard way of editing openstreetmap in the past, but since the web editor got much betters I think it's relevance is smaller these days. nixphoeni has done the last version bumps, I already asked him directly if he wants to take over maintainership. sci-geosciences/mkgmap Tool to create garmin maps from openstreetmap data. I don't have any garmin device any more. This is many years behind upstream and whoever wants to take it will probably have to face some complicated java-dependency-management issues, see here: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402943 If nobody wants to take it we may want to last-rite this. Upstream provides precompiled jar versions, it probably makes more sense that people use those instead of our heavily outdated ebuild. sci-geosciences/osm2mp This is probably deprecated. It turns openstreetmap data into a format called mp which was used by mkgmap (see previous). Later versions of mkgmap were directly capable of using osm data, therefore that use case is gone. However not sure if there are other uses of mp. Anyway, no open bugs, so it seems trouble free and may just stay if there is any use of it. sci-geosciences/osmosis Command line tool to interact with the osm api. Similar problem as mkgmap with complex java dependency stuff. Years behind upstream, see: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402945 As with mkgmap I'd recommend last-riting this if no maintainer steps in to tackle this. -- Hanno Böck https://hboeck.de/ mail/jabber: ha...@hboeck.de GPG: FE73757FA60E4E21B937579FA5880072BBB51E42
