[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] OpenMPI

[Sylvestre Ledru]

It doesn't need to be orphaned for other to contribute. This is team
managed, these people should just join the team.

Sylvestre

Le 05/01/2016 17:51, Ralph Castain a écrit :
> Hmmm…this does indeed look a bit confusing. We’ve been discussing this
> in the OMPI devel group, and we would appreciate it if you officially
> orphaned the project so someone else can pick it up. We have some
> people willing to pick it up, but it needs to be orphaned first.
>
> Would you mind doing so?
> Ralph
>
>> On Dec 28, 2015, at 9:14 AM, Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre at debian.org
>> <mailto:sylvestre at debian.org>> wrote:
>>
>> Le 28/12/2015 04:58, Ralph Castain a écrit :
>>>> On Dec 27, 2015, at 9:35 AM, Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre at debian.org
>>>> <mailto:sylvestre at debian.org>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> -technical-board
>>>> Steve as bcc
>>>> Le 27/12/2015 18:27, Ralph Castain a écrit :
>>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Dec 27, 2015, at 1:55 AM, Sylvestre Ledru
>>>>>> <sylvestre at debian.org <mailto:sylvestre at debian.org>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Le 27/12/2015 02:05, Steve Langasek a écrit :
>>>>>>> Hi Ralph,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 09:59:07AM -0800, Ralph Castain wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The OMPI team has been made aware that the current OMPI version
>>>>>>>> available
>>>>>>>> on Ubuntu and Debian is quite out-of-date.  I’m willing to
>>>>>>>> update it if
>>>>>>>> that would be acceptable, but would need instructions on how to
>>>>>>>> do so.
>>>>>>> The OpenMPI package in Ubuntu is copied unchanged from Debian.
>>>>>>>  If you
>>>>>>> believe a newer version of OpenMPI should be shipped in Ubuntu,
>>>>>>> it's best to
>>>>>>> speak first with the Debian maintainers; I've cc:ed them on this
>>>>>>> reply.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I see that a new version of OpenMPI was already requested in the
>>>>>>> Debian BTS:
>>>>>>> <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=753001>.
>>>>>>>  There has been
>>>>>>> discussion there about the delays in updating to the new
>>>>>>> upstream version;
>>>>>>> perhaps you can lend some help to the maintainers in getting
>>>>>>> this update
>>>>>>> done.
>>>>>> Thanks. I used to be the main maintainer of OpenMPI. But as I changed
>>>>>> position,
>>>>>> I stopped carrying about OpenMPI.
>>>>>> However, I am still wiling to sponsor any volunteer work.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>> Sylvestre
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Sylvestre
>>>>>
>>>>> I'd be willing to assume the maintaining role if that would help.
>>>>> Either way, please point me at the appropriate instructions and
>>>>> I'll provide the update 
>>>>>
>>>> The repo is here:
>>>> http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-openmpi/openmpi/trunk/
>>>> I don't know how familiar you are with Debian packaging but you should:
>>>> 1) build the current version
>>>> 2) try to understand how it works (fix some bugs for example)
>>>> 3) update to a new version
>>>>
>>> I know nothing about Debian packaging, I’m afraid - however, I have
>>> been one of the lead OMPI developers since the project’s inception
>>> 12 years ago, so I know the code quite well. I’m willing to tackle
>>> this just because our users have cited it as a “hole” in our
>>> coverage, and we’d like to see it filled.
>>>
>>> I looked at the link you sent me, but it doesn’t provide any context
>>> to understand what I’m looking at - not even a simple explanation of
>>> what repo system is in use (git, mercurial, svn,…?). Is there some
>>> “beginners” doc for new Debian package maintainers?
>>>
>> Hmm, I thought you had some previous experience with Debian packaging ...
>>
>> It won't be easy to start with this project
>>
>> debcheckout openmpi
>> cd openmpi-*
>> dpkg-buildpackage -nc -b
>>
>> should be enough to build a first version of the packages.
>>
>> S
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