[DRE-maint] Status of BioRuby

[Andreas Tille]

Hi,

after about three monthes I wanted to ping Ruby packagers if we might
expect some help to update BioRuby package or whether we should give it
a try in the Debian Med team.

Kind regards

     Andreas.

On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 11:36:10PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 03:20:52PM -0400, David Nusinow wrote:
> > Yes, I've definitely been neglecting bioruby far too much, and I'm at  
> > the point where I'd rather orphan it. Thank you for taking interest in  
> > it! If someone in the Med team is interested in maintaining the package,  
> > they're welcome to take it with my blessing. The core code is fairly  
> > simple and doesn't require a whole lot of ruby knowledge, although the  
> > newer extensions that have been added seem to be useful for rails  
> > developers, and I don't have any current experience there.
> 
> Thanks for the update.
> 
> > I've cc'ed the libruby-extras group which was founded to take on some of  
> > these sorts of libraries, so they might be able to provide some advice  
> > or help with the package. They have a different packaging methodology  
> > than I use, so bioruby would need some repackaging to fit with their  
> > model if someone wants to go that route.
> 
> Because I have the impression that the Debian Med team has no Ruby
> experts on board it might be reasonable if the Ruby team throws in
> technical experience.  As a Debian Pure Blend we just observe it in
> our tasks[1] and bugs[2] pages (the fact that no "new version available
> bug is filed shows that we need to implement according DEHS pages
> as well).
> 
> Just keep us informed if a Ruby packager is taking over the job or
> whether we should try to see what we might be able to do.
> 
> Thanks for the update on this
> 
>        Andreas.
> 
> [1] http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks/bio-dev#libbio-ruby
> [2] http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/bugs/bio-dev.html
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