[Debian-olpc-devel] Packaging of Image-Viewer

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 03:44:48PM -0400, Luke Faraone wrote:
>On 08/20/2010 03:31 PM, Shachi Paul wrote:
>> I'm a Research Engineer at SEETA. I have packaged the ImageViewer 
>> Activity and I'm looking forward to see it as a part of the Debian 
>> and Ubuntu eco-system. But, a git repository of the ImageViewer 
>> activity already exists at Alioth and is maintained by 
>> Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals < rainct at ubuntu.com>. I've filed the 
>> ITP for this package (#593075) and therefore, I wish to be the 
>> maintainer of this project or work under Seigfred's guidance towards 
>> maintaining the Image Viewer. Any suggestions on how to proceed 
>> further on this matter are invited.
>
>From what I understand, RainCT is not interested in maintaining any of 
>the Sugar packages for which he owns repositories for in 
>git.debian.org.
>
>I think it's safe to rename the older ImageViewer repository on 
>git.debian.org to "sugar-imageviewer-activity.old.git" or something 
>similiar, and start a new repository for your efforts.

I would go further and suggest to remove (after a fair warning on this 
list) collab-maint gits not actively worked on, like this one.

I would suggest one month as a fair warning period.


What do others think?


Kind regards,

  - Jonas

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