[Pkg-ime-devel] ibus-array maintenance

[Keng-Yu Lin]

Hi

2013/9/3 Osamu Aoki <osamu at debian.org>:
> Hi,
>
> Great to hear from you.
>
> On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 03:31:29PM +0800, Keng-Yu Lin wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> 2013/9/2 Osamu Aoki <osamu at debian.org>:
>> > Hi Keng-Yu Lin,
>> >
>> > On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 06:06:11PM +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
>> > I have not got any response for 2 months from Keng-Yu Lin.
>> >   See http://bugs.debian.org/715180
>>
>> The automatic notification also indicated that the patch was included
>> in my upload and the bug is closed now.
>>
>> Any kind of extra response you expect?
>
> I was expecting response on my initial message
>  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=715180#5
> which goes more than just bug.  I was a bit confused since someone
> uploaded package (now I know it was you.  I had some confusion on the
> recent dm upload protocol.  Excuse me.)
>
>> > I am going to upload another one for experimental for ibus 1.5
>> > transition and make this package team upload by pkg-ime group.  I have
>> > no intention to exclude or overrule Keng-Yu Lin but no point wasting
>> > time either.
>>
>> Any specific bug you are going to fix with the upload. As I do not see
>> any in BTS?
>
> Well it is package transition from ibus 1.4 to ibus 1.5.
>
> If you have subscribed to pkg-ime group and host source at Alioth:
>   http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/IMEPackagingTeam
> we can communicate better on this kind of issue.  It was tried during
> the pre-wheezy release but it did not go well.  So we are doing it now.
> Now with GNOME3.8 (experimental), ibus 1.5 works nicely.
>

I did not subscribe the mailing list but I do now.

>> Or the upload is only for removing me? That is very confusing to me.
>
> No ... I was going to make changes for ibus1.5 and change package in
> line with others: team maintained.
>
> | Source: ibus-array
> | Section: utils
> | Priority: optional
> | Maintainer: IME Packaging Team <pkg-ime-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
> | Uploaders: Keng-Yu Lin <kengyu at lexical.tw>, Osamu Aoki <osamu at debian.org>
> | ...
>
> My thought on upload was to experimental if needed.
>
> (Maybe just binary rebuild is all needed.  I need to lean the recent
> protocol on this transition thing.  Now it is more coordinated than
> before.)
>

I am happy to get the package maintain by the pkg-img team. This does
make sense.
Please feel free if you like to upload a change like this. :-)

>> > If I get no response to this in the future, we may remove Keng-Yu from
>> > uploaders to reflect the real situation.
>>
>> Please explain the "real situation"?
>
> Now that I am happy to hear you active, can you consider joining pkg-ime
> group and host source at alioth like many other packages using Git.
>
> If you want me to push initial git repo, I can do that.
>

I am happy to join the pkg-ime group. It is even more appreciated if
you can set up the git repo. As I did not use alioth (I just
registered an account), it could take me a while to set up.

  cheers,
-kengyu