[Pkg-ofed-devel] hpc team (was: RFS: qperf)

[Afif Elghraoui]

Hello,

(Rewriting my original message since my last message was stripped of content for some reason)

On November 22, 2017 1:45:09 AM EST, Mehdi Dogguy <mehdi at dogguy.org> wrote:
>On 2017-11-19 05:22, Afif Elghraoui wrote:
>> 
>> I changed the maintainer field to your name since, as Benjamin
>stated,
>> the pkg-ofed team is defunct. You don't need a special status in
>Debian
>> to be a package maintainer. Bug reports for this package will go to
>you
>> directly (rather than the pkg-ofed mailing list) and whoever
>subscribes
>> to the package's tracker.
>> 
>
>I was wondering about this. It seems to me that it is better to have
>packages team maintained. If pkg-ofed is being deprecated because it
>is not only about ofed anymore, then why don't we use debian-hpc as a
>contact address and call it the "Debian HPC" team? I am personally
>motivated to help in this area of maintenance and would be glad if we
>could team up here together.
>

I think this is a great idea and I'd move gridengine there right away. But with the alioth deprecation, I'm not sure what's to be used as the maintainer email address (mailing lists on lists.debian.org aren't supposed to be used for commit or bug notifications [1]).

regards
Afif

1. https://wiki.debian.org/Alioth#Moving_lists_to_lists.debian.org