On Monday 03 November 2014 11:25:22 Sebastian Kügler wrote: > On Monday, November 03, 2014 11:03:18 Jan Grulich wrote: > > As you might know, there is kio-mtp, which is needed for > > accessing your phones using MTP protocol. Unfortunately there > > is no active development for it and also most people don't know > > about it. Last commit from the original author is one year old > > and I just did port to KF5 ~2 months ago, which seems to work > > fine so far. I sent an email to Philipp Schmidt (the author of > > kio-mtp) a month ago, but so far I didn't get any reply. He also > > didn't response before to my review with KF5 port. My intention > > is to move kio-mtp to kio-extras, because in my opinion it makes > > sense to have it there and I'm also willing to help with > > maintaining it. I'm just not sure what to do, because it doesn't > > seem right to move a project of someone else without his > > permission. Another question is if you agree with having kio-mtp > > as part of kio-extras. > > > > Does anyone know Philipp or have an idea what should I do? > > > > [1] - http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kio-mtp.git > > Jan, first of all thanks for assuming responsibility of kio-mtp. > With Philip being silent (likely because of good reasons), I think > it's completely fine to keep moving it along, which means your > plans to move it to kio-extras are just fine (they make sense, > IMO). Once Philip surfaces again, further steps can be discussed. > > In general, the shared ownership model we handle in KDE is there > exactly for this purpose. With a community as large as KDE, it's > inevitable that once in a while, a maintainer isn't reachable for > an extended amount of time, and this shared ownership makes sure > that important or useful code doesn't fall by the wayside.
Agreed. The only exception is if the move would require any license changes. In this case, you would need the permission of the author. Christoph Feck (kdepepo) >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<
