[Mageia-dev] Suspending package maintainership

Wed Oct 3 17:25:49 CEST 2012

Am 09.08.2012 10:42, schrieb Colin Guthrie:
+> 'Twas brillig, and Florian Hubold at 08/08/12 20:57 did gyre and gimble:
+>> Hi all,
+>>
+>> sadly i need to announce that i'll suspend maintainership
+>> because lack of time currently, and in the near future, say
+>> at least for the next half year or so. I've already waited a bit too
+>> long and some others already did some security updates on my behalf
+>> like for wireshark and avidemux.
+>>
+>> Quite sad about this, but in the end it's better than falsely
+>> pretending packages are maintained when they are effectively not.
+>> I'll try to take on the bugs which are currently assigned to me
+>> as i find the time to do so.
+>>
+>> In exchange i'd try to mentor one or two new padawans, to
+>> somehow make up for the gap.
+> Sad to hear but such is the way of things sometimes. Thankfully you'll
+> still be "around" generally which is very nice to hear :)
+>
+> All the best
+>
+> Col
+>
+>
+To finalize this, after resolving most of the bugs which were assigned
+to me, i've dropped maintainership of all packages which
+i grabbed to not see them dropped. After all that was maybe not the best idea,
+as that's nearly the same as having them unmaintained, at least partially.
+
+
+Here's the list:
+
+[doktor5000 at Mageia2 ~]$ mgarepo maintdb get | grep doktor5000 | grep -vE
+'thunderbird|hplip' | cut -d" " -f1
+X11 forwarding request failed on channel 0
+2mandvd
+aircrack-ng
+airsnort
+aria2
+autoconf
+autoconf2.1
+autogen
+cairo-dock
+cairo-dock-plugins
+cairo-dock-themes
+ccache
+chkrootkit
+conky
+desktop-file-utils
+devede
+dkms
+dvdauthor
+e
+e17_themes
+e_dbus
+e_modules
+ecore
+edb
+edje
+edje_viewer
+eet
+efreet
+eina
+embryo
+eterm
+evas
+exaile
+exalt
+fontforge
+gpsbabel
+gramps
+grip
+gwibber
+handbrake
+hwinfo
+icecream
+imlib2
+inkscape
+libast
+lshw
+me-tv
+moovida
+moovida-plugins-bad
+moovida-plugins-good
+moovida-plugins-ugly
+navit
+ndiswrapper
+ntfs-3g
+qbittorrent
+task-e17
+tesseract
+wireshark
+wpa_supplicant
+x264
+xdg-utils
+
+Feel free to grab them and care for them ...
+