[Ubuntu] SAGA on ubuntugis proposal

[G. Allegri]

Ok, we have agreed to submit the ppa packages of Johan [1] to
DebianGis/UbuntuGis.
He will update its repo, then we'll make some tests. If everything is
ok we will be ready to submit.

Have a good day,
giovanni

[1] https://launchpad.net/~johanvdw/+related-software

2009/12/1 G. Allegri <giohappy at gmail.com>:
>> 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
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Alan Boudreault
>> Mapgears
>> http://www.mapgears.com
>>
>