Re: binary packages

[Paul Kienzle]

On Feb 15, 2004, at 9:25 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:

> Now, while we're at the topic of wishlists, I would like someone else 
> to
> join Debian and share the maintainership with me. I have put enough 
> work in
> over the years to not drop this like a hot potato into the lap of a 
> random
> Debian developer, so I'll wait some more.
>
> But the fact is that I have stopped to use Octave on a regular basis, 
> and
> that is not a good basis for excellence in package maintenance.  And 
> that
> really is what we're shooting for here.
>
> Interested parties for this sub-task should feel free to mail me on- or
> off-list.

Can you give us some idea of how much time it takes to
keep up with octave/octave-forge releases and bug reports
from the Debian community?   I expect setting them up in the
first place took a while, but I want to know how much long
term commitment we need to keep binary packages up to
date.

Thanks,

Paul Kienzle
address@hidden



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