[Pkg-octave-devel] Future of Dynare package

[Christian T. Steigies]

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 09:44:46PM +0200, Thomas Weber wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:12:51AM +0200, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> > 
> > With Rafael retiring, I was wondering how I could continue my work on
> > the Dynare package. A new upstream release of Dynare is just out and I
> > have almost finished packaging work (still need to git push).
> > 
> > Currently the maintainer of the package is the DOG, uploaders are Rafael
> > and myself, and the DMUA field is set to yes. Note that I am neither a
> > DD nor a DM.
> > 
> > Given that, is anybody in the DOG able and willing to upload the package
> > for me? Or should I rather look for a sponsor on Debian mentors site,
> > outside the DOG?
> 
> Well, I guess I go as the second member of the DOG in the chain. The
> problem is that I haven't done much work for at least 6 months (I
> changed jobs and I'm swamped -- business as usual). I could try to get
> some time for Debian work, but I should state clearly that I can't spend
> as much time as Rafael on this. 
> 
> Anyway, I'm only a DM, so this is definitely not the way to go. If we
> don't have a DD in the group, we will lose in the long run.

According to the project info on Alioth Issac, Dirk, Adam, and myself should
be Debian developers. So maybe not everything is lost yet.
 
Christian