Re: dealing with dead projects

2002-09-23 Thread Britton
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Sam Powers wrote: > > > I've got a package, xmms-liveice, which is very, very unstable. The > > upstream author has moved on to other projects, and doesn't seem > > particularly interested in making the code work better. > > Beat h

Re: dealing with dead projects

2002-09-23 Thread Britton
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Sam Powers wrote: > > > I've got a package, xmms-liveice, which is very, very unstable. The > > upstream author has moved on to other projects, and doesn't seem > > particularly interested in making the code work better. > > Beat

Re: dealing with dead projects

2002-09-22 Thread Devin Carraway
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 03:54:17AM -0400, David B Harris wrote: > Ideally, there'd be some dead-project listing somewhere; you could ask > your upstream to list the project there. Then interested parties can > pick it up if they so desire. There have been at least a few -- UFO and DOOSS seem to be

Re: dealing with dead projects

2002-09-22 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Sam Powers wrote: > > Beat him over the head with some of ESR's writings, specifically the part > > which states that the final responsibility of a free software author is to > > find an appropriate successor when your own interest has died. > > Well, at least he offered it

Re: dealing with dead projects

2002-09-22 Thread Sam Powers
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Matthew Palmer wrote: > Beat him over the head with some of ESR's writings, specifically the part > which states that the final responsibility of a free software author is to > find an appropriate successor when your own interest has died. Well, at least he offered it to me.

Re: dealing with dead projects

2002-09-22 Thread Sam Powers
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, David B Harris wrote: > Ideally, there'd be some dead-project listing somewhere; you could ask > your upstream to list the project there. Then interested parties can > pick it up if they so desire. > > Dunno if any such beast exists, however. That would be a really, really, re

Re: dealing with dead projects

2002-09-22 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Sam Powers wrote: > I've got a package, xmms-liveice, which is very, very unstable. The > upstream author has moved on to other projects, and doesn't seem > particularly interested in making the code work better. Beat him over the head with some of ESR's writings, specificall

Re: dealing with dead projects

2002-09-22 Thread David B Harris
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002 00:34:45 -0700 (PDT) Sam Powers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got a package, xmms-liveice, which is very, very unstable. The > upstream author has moved on to other projects, and doesn't seem > particularly interested in making the code work better. > > It's an xmms plugin,

Re: dealing with dead projects

2002-09-22 Thread Devin Carraway
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 03:54:17AM -0400, David B Harris wrote: > Ideally, there'd be some dead-project listing somewhere; you could ask > your upstream to list the project there. Then interested parties can > pick it up if they so desire. There have been at least a few -- UFO and DOOSS seem to b

Re: dealing with dead projects

2002-09-22 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Sam Powers wrote: > > Beat him over the head with some of ESR's writings, specifically the part > > which states that the final responsibility of a free software author is to > > find an appropriate successor when your own interest has died. > > Well, at least he offered i

Re: dealing with dead projects

2002-09-22 Thread Sam Powers
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Matthew Palmer wrote: > Beat him over the head with some of ESR's writings, specifically the part > which states that the final responsibility of a free software author is to > find an appropriate successor when your own interest has died. Well, at least he offered it to me

Re: dealing with dead projects

2002-09-22 Thread Sam Powers
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, David B Harris wrote: > Ideally, there'd be some dead-project listing somewhere; you could ask > your upstream to list the project there. Then interested parties can > pick it up if they so desire. > > Dunno if any such beast exists, however. That would be a really, really, r

Re: dealing with dead projects

2002-09-22 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Sam Powers wrote: > I've got a package, xmms-liveice, which is very, very unstable. The > upstream author has moved on to other projects, and doesn't seem > particularly interested in making the code work better. Beat him over the head with some of ESR's writings, specifical

Re: dealing with dead projects

2002-09-22 Thread David B Harris
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002 00:34:45 -0700 (PDT) Sam Powers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got a package, xmms-liveice, which is very, very unstable. The > upstream author has moved on to other projects, and doesn't seem > particularly interested in making the code work better. > > It's an xmms plugin