On Fri, Oct 09, 2020 at 09:00:44PM -0500, 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.
Thank you for your interest and offer of help! Generally speaking, the best way to set up collaborative maintenance for such packages is to put them up on Salsa [0], for that you'll need to convert them to Git packaging [1] if they aren't already on it (e.g. blank VCS field for MLton tells me that it's not). [0] https://wiki.debian.org/Salsa [1] https://wiki.debian.org/PackagingWithGit > 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. Sounds like your interests are relevant for the Debian Science team [2] (which is marked dead) and Debian Science Maintainers team [3], getting in touch with them would be a good place to start. [2] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience -- Dmitry Borodaenko
