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,

dealing with dead projects

2002-09-22 Thread Sam Powers
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, written in C. I don't know C, so I can't fix the bugs myself. How should I go about find

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

dealing with dead projects

2002-09-22 Thread Sam Powers
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, written in C. I don't know C, so I can't fix the bugs myself. How should I go about fin