I'd be interested in gnuchess and xboard, should they be orphaned. I've been doing a lot with gnuchess in later years.
On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 10:19 AM, Debarshi Ray <rishi...@lostca.se> wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I would like to initiate the non-responsive maintainer process [1] for > Christopher Aillon [2]. A long time ago, he used to be part of the > Fedora and Red Hat desktop teams. He is no longer around. He left > software development and was last seen living off the grid in Hawaii > [3]. Therefore I have jumped straight to the fourth step in the > aforementioned process. > > Here is a list of his packages: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packager/caillon/ > > I am particularly interested in xchat, which I want to retire right > after removing Chris as the point of contact for his packages. > > HexChat [5] is the natural replacement of XChat these days. XChat is > dead [6] - the last upstream release was seven years ago [7]. On the > other hand, HexChat has been a part of Fedora for the last four years, > upstream [4] is involved in both the Fedora [8] and GNOME communities, > and I learnt that the MATE spin already ships it by default. > > For what it is worth, this was already discussed and approved on > desk...@lists.fedoraproject.org [9]. > > Cheers, > Rishi > > [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Policy_for_nonresponsive_ > package_maintainers > [2] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/user/view/caillon > [3] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/desktop@ > lists.fedoraproject.org/message/II4EBLEYPDMYVACNWWEK7GQ7Q644LFQK/ > [4] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/package/rpms/xchat/ > [5] https://hexchat.github.io/ > [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XChat > [7] http://xchat.org/ > [8] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Tingping > [9] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/desktop@ > lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/KLH6FNU5WW253TKQXZS3CCICUID25X6Q/ > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > -- http://cecinestpasunefromage.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------ in your fear, seek only peace in your fear, seek only love -d. bowie
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