[Pkg-osm-maint] My plans in OSM team

David Paleino dapal at debian.org
Thu Apr 14 10:06:12 UTC 2011


On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 11:26:38 +0200, Mònica Ramírez Arceda wrote:

> Hi,

Hello Mònica,

> I would like to share with you my plans related with packages of OSM
> team (and some questions too):
> 
> * Bugs: I have been looking around but I see OSM packages are very
> healthy :-)

And I also saw you posting to some bugs. Great start! :)

> * osm2go: I wanted to package it but it seems the project is abandoned
> [0]. FYI: I am trying to contact with developers to confirm it, I've not
> succeeded yet. If it is abandoned I think I won't do it.

Yes, that makes sense. We don't 

> * bt747: I filed an ITP against bt747 (altough I see dapal has some
> doubts about it...) [1]. Do you think  this package fits in Osm team?
> (It shows your track in an OSM map and allows you to upload it to osm)
> Or maybe it fits better in GIS Team? 

It can be co-maintained by both, IMHO. However, apart from the questions I
asked at the time, from time to time I tried to package it myself. Needless to
say, the tarball I had at the time was bloated, with lots of third-party
software needed to be stripped off, and it couldn't even build.
So I'd say: if you want, give it a try. But it's not a "necessary" package ;)

> * other packages: maybe it would be useful to have a list of all
> osm-related software (in Debian or not) that have the requisites to be
> in Debian. I can do this list extracting info from Osm site [2], maybe
> creating a wiki page?

Yes, please.
However, not all OSM-related software is ready to be packaged in Debian; some
is too experimental, or developed only for a short time, and so on. Be sure to
pick up active projects :)

Your contribution is much apreciated, thanks!
David

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