On Sep 1, 2010, at 12:38 PM, Olav Vitters wrote: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 09:56:12AM -0700, John Ralls wrote: >> It's now on Sourceforge because when Richard decided with his partner >> wind up Imendio and to withdraw from Gtk+, he asked on his forum for >> someone to take over maintaining the build system. I bit, and after >> some probing discovered that he'd not been successful in getting >> anyone to take over *any* of the components; he had some hope that one >> or more of his former Imendio employees who were still involved with >> Gtk+ would take over maintaining the Gtk+ parts. I quickly discovered >> that it would take some time and a lot of work to get a project >> started at Gnome.org. It took a week at Sourceforge, and only that >> long because I did a hostile takeover of a moribund project that was a >> fork of Gtk 1 whose name I wanted. > > If you want a Git account so you can commit to Gtk+, it should be pretty > easy. Three steps basically: > 1. For the person requesting it: follow http://live.gnome.org/NewAccounts > 2. A gtk+ maintainer: approving the Git account > 3. Accounts team: setting it up > > This can all be done very quickly. > > If for some reason there is a delay in above process, feel free to > send me a message.
It seems likely that no. 2 will be the rub: I don't have a long track record compared to others who don't have git commit priv (Paul Davis comes to mind)... but maybe they never asked. So I just did. We'll see what happens, eh? Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list