RE: Quiet upstreams

2000-07-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > Do maintainers generally pass on maintaining things when upstream > is shown to be inactive or unresponsive? > depends on the app. I have passed a package to other people when the upstream and I could not work together. Other times people just fork the app. Sometimes, if you can join the

RE: Quiet upstreams

2000-07-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > Do maintainers generally pass on maintaining things when upstream > is shown to be inactive or unresponsive? > depends on the app. I have passed a package to other people when the upstream and I could not work together. Other times people just fork the app. Sometimes, if you can join the

Quiet upstreams

2000-07-12 Thread Rick Younie
This was in -devel a couple days ago: Craig Small wrote: > ... > I have a reasonably good working relationship with the upstream > maintainer Patrick Powell and he does actively maintain LPRng. Actually > he's probably my best upstream maintainer, even including packages where > I am that upstream

Quiet upstreams

2000-07-12 Thread Rick Younie
This was in -devel a couple days ago: Craig Small wrote: > ... > I have a reasonably good working relationship with the upstream > maintainer Patrick Powell and he does actively maintain LPRng. Actually > he's probably my best upstream maintainer, even including packages where > I am that upstrea