Freecad is looking for new maintainers

[Anton Gladky]

Hi Filippo,

surely you can join the team and help to maintain the package.
The package itself is relatively large, but there are not so much
problems with it usually. After new version 2-3 uploads are enough
to bring it to the stable state. It is not mandatory to be a Python
expert to maintain it.

I am not leaving the science team at all. I will continue to maintain
some science-packages and can surely help if I can to give some advices
about Freecad packaging. But I think science team has a lot of highly
qualified people who can take care of it. My focus though is due to
the professional changes is shifted.

Very important that the upstream is very responsive and it is always
pleasure to work with them. The main problem now is to port it on
Qt5, because Qt4 is EOL. But AFAIK the upstream is working hard
to provide its migration.

Regards

Anton


2018-05-24 23:20 GMT+02:00 Filippo Rusconi <lopippo at debian.org>:
> Greetings, Anton,
>
>
> On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 06:47:02PM +0200, Anton Gladky wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> thanks all for opinions. I should probably do it and orphan
>> packages, where the uploader-list is empty... Not much of
>> them but still.
>>
>> With freecad I will wait till the answer from Adam or when his
>> status will be changed to MIA.
>
>
> I am a big fan of freecad and use it to model my wood an metal crafts
> regularly.
> I am a bit worried at the size of the package and I would like to enquire
> about
> how complex the package is and how much work it costs maintaining it. Also,
> is
> it necessary to be an expert in Python to package it?
> Thank you for your enlightenments...
>
> Cheers,
> Filippo
>
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