[Ubuntu] SAGA on ubuntugis proposal

[G. Allegri]

> Hi Giovanni! I hope you enjoyed your trip in our region :)

Absolutely! That's curious, just yetsterday my wife was saying how
much she would like to come again to Canada... We're fallen in love
with Gaspesie :)

> I think it would be a very nice addition to get SAGA into DebianGIS and
> UbuntuGIS. Your software doesn't need to be under the OSGeo umbrella at all.
> The only think you need is a debian maintainer to prepare/update the package.
> Do you have a debian package maintainer into your organization?

I don't know if the two ppa owners would be interested to do that for
ubuntugis. Anyway, I would like to learn it, as it would be useful for
many reasons.
Probably it will take some time to learn, but if anybody will be
disposable I will try by myself...

giovanni

> regards,
> Alan
>
> On December 1, 2009 10:40:01 am G. Allegri wrote:
>> Hello list, and hello to Alan: I was in Chicoutimi and Tadoussac last
>> summer, for whale watching :-)
>>
>> I'm from the SAGA [1] user group. In these days some of us were considering
>> the opportunity to suggest it for launchpad/~ubuntugis. There are already a
>> couple of personal ppa with SAGA [2] [3], but having it under ubuntugis
>> would give SAGA more visibility.
>> What is the policy to do it? Should it be previously under the OSGeo
>> umbrella?
>>
>> SAGA is a powerful software, under heavy testing. It still needs some more
>> efforts for documentation and translation, but it's code for data analysis
>> is mostly well tested and mature, so I think it would be important to give
>> it visibility and let more users "reach" it.
>>
>> thanks a lot for your work,
>> giovanni
>>
>> [1] https://sourceforge.net/projects/saga-gis/
>> [2] https://launchpad.net/~johanvdw/+related-software
>> [3] https://launchpad.net/~mixo-mixo/+archive/ppa
>>
>
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> Alan Boudreault
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