[Pkg-electronics-devel] Who is active in your team

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Ruben,

On Sat, Aug 04, 2018 at 10:23:07AM +0200, Ruben Undheim wrote:
> > I could personally imagine some Debian Electronics Blend (as a similar
> > offspring from Debian Science as Debian Astro did).  Its your decision
> > whether you understand yourself as a group of DDs/DMs that by chance are
> > maintaining some packages that fit into the field of electronics and you
> > simply use a common project on Salsa or whether you want to make Debian
> > famous for its good support of software in electronics.
> 
> I would love to have a separate Debian Eletronics Blend to be able to better
> categorize the various types of electronics packages.

I wholeheartedly agree.
 
> I am maintaining a number of electronics-related packages (for ASIC/FPGA
> development) in the Debian Science team. The reason I've chosen Debian Science
> is that it feels like a much more active communitity and it was FAR easier to find
> sponsors for packages there.

I hope that you might find sponsors in pkg-electronics - if not SoB will work
as well as long as you need.

> I will become an DD any day now - waiting for the

Cool!

> key to become uploaded to the archive! :)  When being a DD, I don't need the
> sponsoring help anymore, and I might then consider moving all the packages I
> have brought into Debian Science to pkg-electronics.

Sounds pretty sensible to me.  Feel free to ask me for help in creating a
first shot at electronics metapackages + web stuff.  While I hope that my
talk here at DebConf[1] should have provided sufficient information I'd
happily volunteer to help over the first hurdles.

> I am also willing to
> contribute to the maintenance of a new blend - if there will be one. I guess I
> can then even start sponsoring packages for the electronics team, to make it
> easier for myself 4 years ago. ;)

:-)
 
> But then I first have to become a member of the team.

This should not be that hard, hopefully.

Kind regards

      Andreas.

[1] https://people.debian.org/~tille/talks/20180730_debconf_tools_inside_blends/index_en.html 

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