[Pkg-tcltk-devel] Providing/ maintaining xotcl extension

[Stefan Sobernig]

Dear tcltk team!

I would be interested in packaging and maintaining xotcl 
(http://www.xotcl.org), starting with release 1.5.6, as proper extension 
in the tcltk family of debian packages, both for tcl8.4 and tcl8.5.

As for my personal background: I am research fellow at the Institute for 
Information Systems and New Media, being part of the Vienna University 
of Economics. In this role, I am in close contact with Gustaf Neumann 
and Uwe Zdun, the originators and maintainers of xotcl. I have been 
involved in application development with xotcl and xotcl concepts for 
more than 4 years now, especially in the context of openacs 
(http://openacs.org) and aolserver.

I have got some experience in package management on debian + ubuntu, 
mainly packaging for my personal use, though I have never been assigned 
the official role of package maintainer in either community.

I would be happy if I could contribute to your efforts that way.

As for the way to proceed, some questions popped up in my mind:

* I am well aware of the policy guidelines at 
http://pkg-tcltk.alioth.debian.org/tcltk-policy.html/. Are there any 
more sources of information to take into account. I browsed through the 
pkg-tcltk-devel archives, but I couldn't spot any.

* It would be convenient to align my packaging process in a way that 
would allow for propose the xotcl packages as ubuntu ones as well. I 
realised that ubuntu packages (universe; tcltk-defaults) have a personal 
union with the debian ones, being united by the efforts of Sergei 
Golovan. Could you provide me with some guidance in getting xotcl 
packages ready for either *verse?

Thanks for illuminating me!

All the best

//stefan
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Stefan Sobernig
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Vienna University of Economics	
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