Re: Volunteering to maintain proj and shapelib packages

Shawn McCann пишет:

> I'm looking to get involved in the Fedora project and was drawn to the 
> list of packages needing a maintainer. As I've used proj and shapelib 
> before, volunteering to maintain them seems a good place to start.

It would be great!
We got another GIS-related package w/o maintainer - GEOS, which blocks 
inclusion of QuantumGIS to FE.

> The company I work for builds systems around the world in various 
> domains, especially for remote sensing from satellites. I've recently 
> been working with on projects to deploy Linux (RHEL) and GIS systems in 
> developing countries, hence my renewed interest in the discussions on 
> adding GRASS to Fedora Extras.

GRASS needs another problem to be solved - GDAL and GDAL-GRASS plugin.

FYI we also got AutoTrace, a good free, opensource vectorizer, w/o 
maintainer.