[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Wishing to join the team

[Sam Hocevar]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2007, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> * Sam Hocevar <sam at zoy.org> [2007-03-29 13:19]:
> 
> >    OpenCV is already on Alioth[1] but I'd like if possible to put my
> > packages in the pkg-scicomp repository, I'm just concerned about the
> > layout, I hope it's OK if I don't keep upstream source on Alioth, I
> > prefer to work with a tarball + a clean debian directory with a patch
> > system. Just tell me.
> > 
> > [1] svn://svn.debian.org/svn/sam-hocevar/pkg-misc/unstable/opencv/
> 
> Some packages maintained by the pkg-scicomp group do not have the upstream
> sources in SVN, for instance glpk and xmds (which I used to maintain).  I
> also much prefer have only the Debian files in SVN and work with patches. It
> would be good though that you create trunk/ and tags/ directories for your
> packages.

   Okay, suits me fine (I'm not fond of trunk/branches because the trunk
can be either experimental or unstable depending on the package status,
but it's really not a problem, I can have local symlinks).

   Do you have some magic to checkout the whole repository but ignore
tags/branches subdirectories?

   My Alioth username is "sho", btw.

> Unrelated to that: how did you succeed to have a personal SVN repoitory
> (/svn/sam-hocevar) in svn.d.o?  Is it because you have good relations with
> the French Alioth admins or because you are a DPL candidate? :-)

   It's really only because I asked for it... Having a place where my
work is available for others if I get hit by a bus seemed obvious to
me, but the Alioth admin told me no one had asked for such a repository
before (probably because collab-maint exists). If you want one, just ask
and I'm sure you'll get it :-)

-- 
Sam.