Looking for new package owners

Jon Ciesla limb at jcomserv.net
Wed Aug 27 19:17:41 UTC 2008


> It looks like metafont failed to produce output. Maybe you're in for a
> check from DEK :)
> Granted, mftrace could do something less abrupt than dump a stack trace.
>
> warning: mf: command exited with value 32512 (ignored)
> Metafont failed.  Excerpt from the log file:
>

Odd, it's not doing this on F-9, builds fine there.  Could this be an
artifact of the patch fuzz change?

> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 9:55 PM, Jon Ciesla <limb at jcomserv.net> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm not familiar with lilypond, but that page you linked is 404...
>>
>> Sorry, typed from another monitor, and I fat-fingered it:
>> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=789014
>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 9:25 PM, Jon Ciesla <limb at jcomserv.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I can take autotrace and mftrace. I'm about to package more font
>>>>> generation tools, i.e. mf2pt1 and metatype1. But I have yet to be
>>>>> sponsored, so it will take a while...
>>>>
>>>> Thanks Quentin!
>>>>
>>>> Vasile, my koji devel build of lilypond dies during an mftrace step.
>>>> Do
>>>> you have any insight?  Might mftrace need a rebuild?  A newer version
>>>> is
>>>> available anyway. . .
>>>> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskingo?taskID=789014
>>>>
>>>>> fig2ps should probably be left in the cold, there much better options
>>>>> for making drawings in/for LaTeX these days. Besides the rpm dates
>>>>> back to fc7.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 10:25 PM, Deji Akingunola
>>>>> <dakingun at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Quentin Spencer <qspencer at ieee.org>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> It's becoming clear to me that I lack the time to maintain all of
>>>>>>> my
>>>>>>> packages, as there are a few outstanding bug reports that I'm just
>>>>>>> not
>>>>>>> getting to. I think it's time to hand off some or all of my
>>>>>>> packages
>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>> new
>>>>>>> maintainers. The following is the list of my current packages.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> atlas
>>>>>>> autotrace
>>>>>>> cln
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'll take 'atlas' and 'cln' .
>>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Deji
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> fig2ps
>>>>>>> fftw
>>>>>>> ginac
>>>>>>> glpk
>>>>>>> lilypond
>>>>>>> lilypond-doc
>>>>>>> mftrace
>>>>>>> octave
>>>>>>> octave-forge
>>>>>>> suitesparse
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Some of these are really easy, but two of them could be somewhat
>>>>>>> challenging. Octave-forge is getting big and ugly, and it really
>>>>>>> needs
>>>>>>> to be
>>>>>>> split into about 40 subpackages (which could be done incrementally,
>>>>>>> rather
>>>>>>> than all at once). Atlas is more or less working but it is really
>>>>>>> outdated,
>>>>>>> and it would probably require almost starting from scratch to
>>>>>>> package
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> new 3.8.x releases.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Quentin
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> novus ordo absurdum
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> novus ordo absurdum
>>
>>
>


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