On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, Craig Boston wrote:
I'm currently the maintainer for the Audacity port, however I haven't
had much free time lately and it needs some attention. Previously I was
in a position that I needed this software almost daily, however due to a
chance in circumstances a while back I only rarely use it now.
If there is anyone who feels like they have the time to dedicate to it
and wants to take over maintainership please let me know. There's a few
issues with it that need to be kept in mind and I'd like to make sure
that information gets passed on. I'm cc-ing Jack as he maintains the
audacity-devel port and may be interested.
In the meantime I'm going to at least try to get the latest stable
release working over the weekend (there's a PR about it with a patch but
it didn't work on i386 when I tried). I don't want the port to be
without a maintainer, so I'll keep it so long as nobody steps up, but
can only make best-effort guarantees about timeliness.
I'm not interested in maintainership of Audacity, but your post did bring
up a thought.
I think it would make sense to have a wiki for maintainers where they can
keep notes, documentation and special circumstances information about
ports. Add links to the definitive source of the code, a short history,
a link to the CVS/SVN repository changelog, and as Craig mentioned above a
listing of "a few issues ... that need to be kept in mind." This way even
if Craig got hit by a beer truck (God forbid), the knowledge Craig gained
during his maintainership would live on. One section per port, and ports
could link to eachother (dependencies).
A tool could be written that would generate the baseline documentation on
the fly (or at least generated as text to be copied and pasted into the
wiki to save time). A default template and instructions/guidelines would
be strongly encouraged to keep the documentation consistent.
Beckman
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