[Calendarserver-discuss] How important is caldav-tester to get into Debian?

[Guido Günther]

Hi,
On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 10:55:33PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Petter Reinholdtsen]
> > Hi.
> >
> > I've been looking at calypso and rapsody the last few days, and in the
> > process I came across caldav-tester that can check if a given
> > caldav/carddav server is working as it should.  The WNPP request #742999
> > was created in 2014 and the the packaging work is available from
> > github[1].  But the process seem to have stopped.  I wonder, is it an
> > important package to get into Debian or not?  Would it be useful for the
> > packages already in Debian if I uploaded the current github code (with a
> > few fixes sent as pull requests to the github project?  I've tried to
> > reach Frank Piotrowski a few days ago, asking if he is still interested
> > in maintaining this package, without any replies so far.
> 
> Frank replied and said he was working on the package on request from
> Guido, and he did not need to be involved unless we were short on
> people.

Frank, we're always short on people.

> 
> If I upload it, is it a good idea to list
> calendarserver-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org as the maintainer?
> Guido, can you be a co-maintainer?  chrysn already expressed interest
> in

I'm not able to (co-)maintain more packages atm.

> helping out, and the three of us should be able to maintain it.  I guess
> we should place it as part of the
> <URL: https://alioth.debian.org/projects/calendarserver/ > project on
> git.debian.org.

I'm mostly listed on the alioth project for "historic reasons". Rahul
and Ximin are doing the heavy lifting and decide if and how they want to
handle this in the calendarserver project.

Cheers,
 -- Guido