[DRE-maint] [IMPORTANT] future of pkg-ruby-extras

[Marc Dequènes (Duck)]

Coin,

Hello Ruby people :-). I've been quite silent since a while, needing  
rest after the gems fights and was not yet able to recover full  
motivation yet. Nevertheless, and even if i'm late to reply, i'm still  
interested in being in the team (login: duck), and hope to participate  
more this year.

Thanks Lucas for your amazing past work. Even if we still have much  
work, we've got a not so bad Ruby basis for Squeeze thanks to you.

I maintain a few Ruby packages:
   - activeldap
   - kwalify
   - libfacets-ruby
   - libfeedtools-ruby
   - libuuidtools-ruby
   - rbot
and i intend to continue my work on them. I'm also still available for  
sponsoring request, from time to time.

Quoting Lucas Nussbaum <lucas at lucas-nussbaum.net>:

> So far Arnaud Cornet has not replied, and ruby-gnome2 is still listed
> without any maintainer, so I'm a bit worried about those two packages.

Arnaud is in some "deep tired phase", and is willing to pass such kind  
of responsabilities onto other persons. Maintainer changes is already  
going on for some of his packages, but several are still missing good  
will. I'm personally taking care of webgen since a while, but as i  
don't use the GNOME desktop anymore, i can't really help for  
ruby-gnome2 besides sponsoring occasionally.

>> I guess these meta-pkgs don't require much work and they will be alright
>> in the end:
>>
>> >    libruby-extras
>
> Is this package really needed? I'm not so sure it's that useful.

I personally find it quite practical, as i'm a lazy boy ;-).

Regards.

-- 
Marc Dequènes (Duck)
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