Re: Re: Re: Shared cluster storage for bioinformatics

Hi Urmas,

[should some of the Cc's get dropped?  Maybe this should get redirected to
[email protected] ? ]

On Fri, Sep 06, 2024 at 10:41:11AM +0000, Urmas Rist wrote:
> Sorry for the delay, I also wanted to talk with the former LizardFS
> maintainer as well. I've now finally submitted a ITP for SaunaFS
> (https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2024/09/msg00115.html). Since it was my
> first ITP, I don't know if I missed anything (I may have been too detailed,
> after now reading other ITP's). As said there, I will need a sponsor, but I'll
> start working on packages for it.
> 
> > Thank you, Urmas! This sounds great. I am not sure about how much help I can be
> > when it comes to maintaining/packaging work that is such close to the kernel,
> > but just shout out whenever you need help.
> 
> It's not actually part of the kernel in any way. It uses FUSE (fuse3), which
> means all of the program is written in userspace. The only thing close
> to the kernel is the client, which handles the filesystem calls from the
> kernel in userspace.

The "Description: " in your ITP ends in a dot, and the section below it is a
bit too terse.  The idea is these will be used as Description and long
description in the packages debian/control file.  See
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-binary.html#s-descriptions for some
hints.

Of course, this can all get fixed later when you really start the packaging work.

Thanks for your work & welcome to Debian Packaging!

Bye,

Joost