[request-tracker-maintainers] Re: request-tracker package maintenance

[Niko Tyni]

On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 09:40:52AM -0400, Jacob Helwig wrote:
 
> I saw that you filed an ITA for request-tracker3.4 and have a project  
> up on Alioth mentioning future versions.  I was wondering if you were  
> still planning on adopting request-tracker, and if there was anything  
> I could do to help to get request-tracker 3.6.1 packaged for Debian.

Hi,

unfortunately, just a few days ago I came to the conclusion that I don't
really have enough time currently for committing myself to maintaining RT.
There have been a few other people interested (at least Toni Mueller,
Ivan Kohler and Tim Cutts), and I'm still hoping that the team gets
going, which is why I haven't cancelled my ITA quite yet. I'm planning
to wait until the weekend to see if somebody else from the prospective
Alioth RT team takes over the ITA. If nobody does, I'll have to retitle
it back to an O: bug.

AFAIK, nobody has yet looked into 3.6 packaging properly. I guess the
best help would be to take the current 3.4 package (or possibly the
never-uploaded 3.4.5 version at [1] that I prepared in June), upgrade
it to 3.6.1 and make it work :)

[1] http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-request-tracker/packages/request-tracker3.4/trunk/

I'm Cc'ing pkg-request-tracker-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org,
the Alioth project mailing list. I still think an Alioth team would be a
good way to maintain RT, and I guess Toni Mueller or Ivan Kohler would
be happy to add you to the project. I'm CCing Toni, as I'm not sure if
he's on the list yet.

I'm also CC'ing the ITA bug (#366551).

Cheers and good luck,
-- 
Niko Tyni	ntyni at iki.fi