Some scientific packages are looking for new maintainers

[Anton Gladky]

Hi Kurt,

2018-06-21 4:09 GMT+02:00 Kurt Kremitzki <kkremitzki at gmail.com>:
>> openfoam - Set of programs for Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
>
> I'm interested in helping to maintain this, as it's part of the FreeCAD world
> by way of FC's CFD Workbench. It looks like there's also the work of packaging
> OpenFOAM 5 to be done, as well. Unfortunately (IMO) they use a bit of a
> strange git repository scheme, making new repos e.g. [1] instead of branches.

I even tried to package OpenFoam recently. There were some problems.
But generally it is possible. Also as far as I remember it is possible
to download
the tarball without necessity to play with git.

Thanks for intending to maintain this package!

Regards

Anton