- We always need people to help with maintaining existing package. If you need
- some additional software packaged and you want to try it on your own, we would
- be happy to mentor you. We also have a :ref:`list of ongoing and planned
- projects <projects>`, each listing a number of tasks that need to be done.
-
- If you found something you are interested in, please email the
- neurodebian-devel_ mailing list and let us know about it. Thanks!
+ Debian, Debian, Debian -- What about Ubuntu?
+ NeuroDebian offers backported binary packages for recent Ubuntu releases
+ whenever possible. However, since Ubuntu (like many other derivatives) uses
+ Debian as its foundation, it is more efficient to spend time maintaining
+ packages in Debian, instead of having to directly contribute to countless
+ child-distributions. After the appearance of new packages in Debian, Ubuntu
+ typically synchronizes them quickly and they become available in the *Ubuntu
+ universe* -- a repository of Debian packages rebuilt for a particular Ubuntu
+ release. We are not constantly rebuilding of all available NeuroDebian
+ packages for new Ubuntu releases. Therefore, you might find some packages
+ temporarily being available for older Ubuntu releases only -- until the point
+ when a new package version is made and gets built for all currently supported
+ releases.
+
+
+ How do I get a new neuroscience-related FOSS into (Neuro)Debian?
+ The goal of NeuroDebian is to package neuroscience software for Debian. Hence
+ getting software into NeuroDebian means trying to get it into Debian. There are
+ at least two possibilities to achieve that:
+
+ * You can approach packaging it yourself. Start by filing an ITP_ (Intent to
+ Package) bugreport and, if you are not a Debian developer, `ask us
+ <team@neuro.debian.net>`_ to mentor your upload to Debian_.
+
+ * `Contact us <team@neuro.debian.net>`_ and we'll do the work for you, but
+ then it might take a little longer, depending on our current workload and
+ interest in a particular software.