On Sat, Oct 10, 2020 at 2:00 AM Brett Gilio wrote: > I am a long term user of Debian GNU/Linux (and a regular contributor to > GNU Guix). I have been using Debian or some other variant of GNU/Linux > for 10+ years, in both professional and personal capacities. I notice > that some packages that I depend on are not getting much attention, and > I would like to offer help. I currently maintain my own repository using > reprepro, but would like to return the packages I maintain on my own to > the community as a whole.
Please take a look at our intro guide for getting packages into Debian: https://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers/ > For example, MLton [0] could use updating, and working through the > different branches. Likewise for PolyML, and SMLnj. I think helping with > these three collections of packages would be a good first step into > possibly helping Debian in the future. The mlton maintainer looks MIA, please report them as such. The package itself can be adopted through the salvage process. Please note that there is another person (and their sponsor) (names below) who are interested in working on mlton, so please coordinate with those two. https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/mlton https://contributors.debian.org/contributor/terpstra/ https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/beyond-pkging.en.html#mia-qa https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.en.html#package-salvaging https://wiki.debian.org/PackageSalvaging Ivan Raikov <ivan.g.rai...@gmail.com> Benjamin Barenblat <bba...@debian.org> PolyML is a package from the Debian Science team, I expect they would welcome help maintaining it and other packages. https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/polyml https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianScience https://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience SMLnj is an orphaned package, so you can simply adopt it and seek a sponsor. https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/smlnj https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.en.html#adopting-a-package https://mentors.debian.net/sponsors/rfs-howto/ -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
