Karl, your input is appreciated on this. On Jun 12, 08 11:02:47 -0700, Micah Cowan wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hm, just to be clear, I was speaking of myself when I spoke of a > "vice-maintainer"; you'll still need to find someone to be the "real" > maintainer,
Agreed, welcome fellow Vice-Maintainer :-) I've flicked a few switches on https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/screen/ you should feel more comfortable there now. Can you help us finding additional staff? You mentioned that you were successful on that with wget, so ... > I think, unless that would be help enough to allow you to > remain in that role; there will at least need to be someone else to take > on most of the actual development stuff. We have a decent backlock of bugs and patches filed at savannah. Working on these alone, plus some VCS is an appreciated step forward. With regard to the 'need of a new maintainer', I cannot comprehensivly describe what exactly is needed. I am just happy, a helping hand spoke up and whould like to offer to you: "Do as much as you like, or as little as you can do". Screen is a leaf project. So unless a security-issue comes our way, I believe we are free to remain in the "as much or as little" mode. Let us ask Karl to comment on this. cheers, Jw. > > I imagine placing me in that role, which wouldn't really an official GNU > role, unless you wanted to go with co-maintainer, just involves handing > some responsibilities to me, and perhaps giving me manager or admin > access on Savannah (if you're using that or some other bug tracke), and > commit access* to the repository; and pointing me at whatever queue of > patches and TODO items you might have that aren't officially tracked > anywhere. > > * If you're planning on migrating to a more modern VCS, then rather than > giving me commit access to CVS, it might be simpler to have me work in > my own private repository, until you can be sure of the work I'm doing > ;) ...then again, VCSses are VCSses, and so crap can always be backed > out. :) > > - -Micah > > Juergen Weigert wrote: > > Okey dokey, > > > > Thank you Micah for volunteering! > > I am ready to step down and become Vice-Maintainer, I will > > continue to do my share of evil stress testing, and will do > > the next few official releases -- whenever we find > > we built something that is worth a release. No doubt. > > > > Micha is happy too with having you aboard, > > and confirmed that your plans make sense. > > > > Oh, having one 'Micha' and one 'Micah' on the team > > may become confusing, but I think I can manage this :-) > > > > Karl, is there any official ceremony for applying-to and > > handing-over maintainership? > > Or do you just need to say "Agreed. Done."? > > > > thanks, > > Jw. > > > > On Jun 11, 08 22:13:59 -0700, Micah Cowan wrote: > > Juergen Weigert wrote: > >>>> On Jun 12, 08 12:59:46 -0500, Karl Berry wrote: > >>>>> And otherwise, we're looking for a new maintainer. So if you are > >>>>> interested in taking care of screen going forward, please write me and > >>>>> we can discuss. > >>>> Frankly, I'd opt for finding a new maintainer. My time on screen is > >>>> too limited to do any good. Micha is developing new features at a steady > >>>> pace, but also under limited time. > >>>> I believe we'd need someone to tend to bug reports, consoldiate patches > >>>> into some git or svn and care for regular releases. > > GNU Screen holds a particular place in my heart. I'd volunteer for > > maintainership, but of course GNU Wget is already taking more than > > enough of my time. However, I'd be happy to pitch in with migrating the > > repo from CVS to a more modern VCS, such as git (I am very happy with > > Wget's own move to a distributed VCS, though we went with Mercurial for > > portability reasons that probably wouldn't apply so much for Screen), > > and could help with screening and applying patches. I've no time for > > serious development, but perhaps when you've found a real maintainer, I > > can volunteer as a sort of vice-maintainer, helping with the more > > boring, administrative aspects. ;) "tending to bug reports, > > consolidating patches", etc, is something I could help with; "care for > > regular releases" will have to be someone else's department, at least as > > far as actual leadership and ownership of the project is concerned. > > > > BTW, advertising the need for developer help on Savannah was very > > effective for Wget; I'd recommend it for Screen (though, the barrier to > > entry is possibly higher for Screen). > > > > - -- > Micah J. 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