[3dprinter-general] sfact/skeinforge and power packages to be team maintained

[Andrea Colangelo]

Hello cwryu

On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 4:22 PM, Changwoo Ryu <cwryu at debian.org> wrote:
> I'm maintaining sfact and power package for 3D printer programs. I'd
> like to made them under team maintaining. They are already maintained on
> git so I think I could start just by pushing them to the team git repos.

Thank you for uploading both of them to the team repo already!

> sfact/skeinforge
>
> Currently skeinforge package is a dummy package depending on sfact. I
> made this transition when skeinforge had not updated for a long time
> with several important issues, though skeinforge version 50 has been
> released a few days after the transition.
>
> Skeinforge is dying. Sfact fork is not well maintained either. But still
> a few 3D printing programs assume skeinforge as a slicer, so it needs to
> be maintained for a while. Better to update to skeinforge version 50 or
> sfact git version based on it.

I'm not sure I have understood if the latter is a question. Mind clarifying?

> power
>
> A tiny python package used by cura. On Linux, this package is just an
> interface of /sys/class/power_supply/. I packaged it for cura but had no
> enough time to deal with the whole dependencies. (Actually the old cura
> was much more complicated than now. I remember it even used pypy to run
> skeinforge faster.)
>
> There should be no issue on this package. Needs to update upstream
> version 1.2

Do you have some spare time to take care of it? Otherwise I might give
it a look in the weekend.


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