[Glade-devel] glade-3 maintainership

[Shane Butler]

I agree that somebody needs to be applying patches or the project will
grind to a halt. Already there are some patches in CVS that have comment
saying "this works!" etc waiting to be applied.
If one or two people like David want to be maintainers, I think that
would be great. It is important to have an active maintainer. I know I
certainly don't have time to be a maintainer but am happy to help out in
other ways.
Regards, Shane

On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 08:16, David Hoover wrote:
> I've been waiting to send this in order to make sure everyone has a
> reasonable amount of time to respond, but now I'd like to bring it up:
> 
> It looks as if glade-3 really doesn't have a maintainer right now.
> Joaquin is the current maintainer, but he hasn't responded to any of the
> recent threads, nor committed anything to cvs in ~5 months.
> 
> Tristan has been doing some work on things, I have a few things I'm
> playing with right now, there have suddenly been a couple of patches
> surfacing on the list in the past week, etcetera. With this in mind,
> maintaining a slew of uncommitted patches in bugzilla waiting for
> approval/application will get unwieldy fairly quickly.
> 
> Since development has been mostly stagnated for the past quarter of a
> year, I would like to step up to the plate and take maintainership
> responsibilities. I am willing (if they are) to participate in patch
> review with some of the other people who have had commit approval in the
> past (Damon, Paolo, Shane, etc), or if people are comfortable, I can
> tackle patch review myself; if in the future someone stepped up with a
> strong opposition to my actions, there would always be cvs history in
> order to remove things.
> 
> I fear that without someone at the reigns to review and apply patches,
> this newfound burst of activity will quickly die; I know that if I went
> for weeks building up a large number of sets of unapplied-patches that
> needed to be managed, I would quickly lose interest in working on
> glade-3 (for instance, my recent patch which added api documentation
> would be a godsend for me while working on other fixes, but if that doc
> patch had not been applied already, I would need to constantly revert it
> before building the unique patches for other fixes)
> 
> Admittedly, I'm not the most experienced person in maintainership, nor
> the most familiar with the current glade-3 code base, but I am willing
> to work at it, do my best, and acclimate over time. As it stands now, it
> appears that nobody else wants the job or has the time for it, and I'd
> much rather see some progress, even if it is slightly shaky at first,
> rather than a potentially exciting project laying fallow.
> 
> I welcome any responses to this, and if people are interested, we can
> set up a meeting in IRC to discuss the matter further. For now, I will
> tentatively propose a meeting in #glade3 on irc.gimp.org on Friday,
> October 15th. I'm not sure what timezones people are in, other than that
> I am in UTC -0700 and Tristan is UTC -0400, so sometime in the North
> American work day would probably be best for the two of us. For now, let
> me suggest 17:00 UTC aka 13:00 EDT aka 10:00 PDT.
> 
> Please send me email off list if you're interested in coming (or even if
> you're not) and let me also know if that time is acceptable for you. I
> will corral that information & post ASAP with updates to that.