[DRE-maint] Status of BioRuby

[David Nusinow]

Hi Andreas,

Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi,
>
> while preparing my Debian Med talk for LSM I realised
> that the libbio-ruby package is quite behind upstream
> (we have 1.1 upstream has 1.3) and is not group maintained
> as we try to approach for medicine / biology related
> packages.  David, what do you think about maintaining the
> package in Debian Med Svn and setting Debian Med packaging
> team as maintainer according to our policy[1].
>
> I doubt that we have any Ruby experts in the team to be
> able to work on major updates but perhaps we can at least
> try to work on the new package in case it work without heavy
> changes in the packaging.
>
> Kind regards
>
>        Andreas.
>
> [1] http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/docs/policy.html
>   

Yes, I've definitely been neglecting bioruby far too much, and I'm at 
the point where I'd rather orphan it. Thank you for taking interest in 
it! If someone in the Med team is interested in maintaining the package, 
they're welcome to take it with my blessing. The core code is fairly 
simple and doesn't require a whole lot of ruby knowledge, although the 
newer extensions that have been added seem to be useful for rails 
developers, and I don't have any current experience there.

I've cc'ed the libruby-extras group which was founded to take on some of 
these sorts of libraries, so they might be able to provide some advice 
or help with the package. They have a different packaging methodology 
than I use, so bioruby would need some repackaging to fit with their 
model if someone wants to go that route.

Please CC me for this thread, since I'm not currently subscribed. Thanks!

 - David Nusinow