I agree that somebody needs to be applying patches or the project will grind to a halt. Already there are some patches in CVS that have comment saying "this works!" etc waiting to be applied. If one or two people like David want to be maintainers, I think that would be great. It is important to have an active maintainer. I know I certainly don't have time to be a maintainer but am happy to help out in other ways. Regards, Shane
On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 08:16, David Hoover wrote: > I've been waiting to send this in order to make sure everyone has a > reasonable amount of time to respond, but now I'd like to bring it up: > > It looks as if glade-3 really doesn't have a maintainer right now. > Joaquin is the current maintainer, but he hasn't responded to any of the > recent threads, nor committed anything to cvs in ~5 months. > > Tristan has been doing some work on things, I have a few things I'm > playing with right now, there have suddenly been a couple of patches > surfacing on the list in the past week, etcetera. With this in mind, > maintaining a slew of uncommitted patches in bugzilla waiting for > approval/application will get unwieldy fairly quickly. > > Since development has been mostly stagnated for the past quarter of a > year, I would like to step up to the plate and take maintainership > responsibilities. I am willing (if they are) to participate in patch > review with some of the other people who have had commit approval in the > past (Damon, Paolo, Shane, etc), or if people are comfortable, I can > tackle patch review myself; if in the future someone stepped up with a > strong opposition to my actions, there would always be cvs history in > order to remove things. > > I fear that without someone at the reigns to review and apply patches, > this newfound burst of activity will quickly die; I know that if I went > for weeks building up a large number of sets of unapplied-patches that > needed to be managed, I would quickly lose interest in working on > glade-3 (for instance, my recent patch which added api documentation > would be a godsend for me while working on other fixes, but if that doc > patch had not been applied already, I would need to constantly revert it > before building the unique patches for other fixes) > > Admittedly, I'm not the most experienced person in maintainership, nor > the most familiar with the current glade-3 code base, but I am willing > to work at it, do my best, and acclimate over time. As it stands now, it > appears that nobody else wants the job or has the time for it, and I'd > much rather see some progress, even if it is slightly shaky at first, > rather than a potentially exciting project laying fallow. > > I welcome any responses to this, and if people are interested, we can > set up a meeting in IRC to discuss the matter further. For now, I will > tentatively propose a meeting in #glade3 on irc.gimp.org on Friday, > October 15th. I'm not sure what timezones people are in, other than that > I am in UTC -0700 and Tristan is UTC -0400, so sometime in the North > American work day would probably be best for the two of us. For now, let > me suggest 17:00 UTC aka 13:00 EDT aka 10:00 PDT. > > Please send me email off list if you're interested in coming (or even if > you're not) and let me also know if that time is acceptable for you. I > will corral that information & post ASAP with updates to that. _______________________________________________ Glade-devel maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/glade-devel
