[Debian-l10n-devel] Welsh / Cymraeg maintenance offer

[finley.watson at tutanota.com]

Hello,

I work with the organisation (Bangor University) responsible for creating the Welsh (Cymraeg) Hunspell data (.dic and .aff files). I am happy to package it and maintain it such that a `hunspell-cy` package exists for spellchecking. I've taken a look at the https://www.debian.org/devel/join/newmaint page and it looks like I would need a sponsor to achieve this, since I've haven't contributed to Debian before?

I've never packaged software for Linux distros, but I am fairly active with KDE https://invent.kde.org/finw and have been providing the Hunspell data for LibreOffice https://extensions.libreoffice.org/en/extensions/show/27374 / https://github.com/fin-w/LibreOffice-Geiriadur-Cymraeg-Welsh-Dictionary, so I'm certain I can maintain the `hunspell-cy` package.

I can also see that the aspell package is unmaintained https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=915445 , provided it's compatible enough with the Hunspell data I'm happy to adopt that package too, although the file list https://packages.debian.org/sid/all/aspell-cy/filelist doesn't seem to contain the .dic / .aff files (I thought Aspell was broadly compatible with Hunspell...?)

Can somebody help me get started?

Many thanks,

Finley