[DebianGIS-dev] Postgis on debian

[Francesco Paolo Lovergine]

On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 07:08:39PM +0200, Floris Sluiter wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have used your mapserver packages for quite a while now, thanks!
> A related package to your effort is Postgis. Now there is a maintainer for
> that package: Alex Bodnaru, but he has not responeded to critical bugs for
> over 122 days. I would be glad to become a maintainer for this package but
> I do not know if this maintainer actually stopped.
> BTW: I'm currently not a developer for debian, but I am a professional
> software engineer and have been using debian extensively for years (check
> out http://meridian.science.uva.nl/bambas for a sample of my work).
> However, I would need a mentor/advocate to help me get started with that.
> 
> My questions are these:
> Could you check if Alex Bodnaru has in fact stopped?
> If so: maybe you would consider taking postgis over yourself?

Simply asking him is the better thing to do. This mail is 
Consider that currently we have a few stoppers in development due
to recent C++ and libraries transitions.

> If not: maybe you would be willing to help me to become a maintainer for
> this package?
> 

If you read 

http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/
http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/
http://pkg-grass.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl/InfoForDevelopers

you'll have all details about proper maintainership. Me or pere can be
sponsors when you would have something ready and Alex would agree.

-- 
Francesco P. Lovergine