Hi all, Dominique Pellé wrote: > Benjamin R. Haskell <v...@benizi.com> wrote: > [...] > > On Sat, 12 May 2012, Thilo Six wrote: > [...] > >> That is exactlx what i think about the current practice, too. Really i > >> think instead of that single-point-of-failure modell of maintenance we > >> should move the a team maintenance of runtimefiles. Unless that changes it > >> is nearly impossible to get archive wide features/policies applied.
You may be right here, but there's a reason for the current
model...
> > I concur completely that a team of runtime file maintainers sounds better.
And it would help people like me that used to maintain some
runtime files in the past and now are stuck maintaining something
they don't use any longer.
For me, that would be the syntax files for uil (motif user
interface language) and prolog, both of which I used to use at
university. But I left university more than 10 years ago, so I'm
stuck with maintaining something I don't use any longer myself.
But of course, there once was a reason for the current model,
which is "let people maintain the stuff who know what they are
doing" in the sense that people started maintain runtime files
when they were using the stuff by themselves. Unfortunately, the
only thing I keep using myself today is the koehler.vim
colorscheme :-)
If a group of maintainers was to take over the runtime files, I
would be glad to hand over the uil and prolog syntax files to
someone who is willing to dedicate the time and effort needed,
while I really would keep maintaining the koehler.vim colorscheme
myself :-)
> Yes, a team of runtime file maintainers sounds good to me,
> at least for files that have not been touched by the maintainer
> in the last x years.
>
> Some statistics: I've contacted the maintainers of 15 syntax files
> this weekend to add spelling checker support. The stats so far are:
>
> - 4 responses received from maintainers of awk, forth, ocaml, scheme
> (thanks!);
> - 6 emails without response so far (but it's fair to wait a bit more);
That should now at least be 5:5 :-)
It's always a good idea to give people a few days time to reply,
especially for their private email which they might not read for
a few days. When I am on vacation, it is possible that I don't
read my mail for two or three weeks - because my vacation tends
to be a no-internet-for-a-while time :)
> - 5 emails bounced for syntax files: bc, mmix, xpm2, expect, vhdl.
>
> I'll send the proposed patch to Bram after I wait a bit further.
That's a good approach for the fallback in any case.
> Regards
> -- Dominique
Ciao,
Thomas
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