Formal package takeover request because of AWOL maintainer

Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski dominik at greysector.net
Sun Jul 15 09:33:13 UTC 2007


On Sunday, 15 July 2007 at 07:40, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I would like to take over gnome-applet-sensors from Aaron Kurtz 
> (a.kurtz at hardsun.net) because he is AWOL. Several contact attempts have 
> been made and 2 mails have been sent to this list about it, one on the 30th 
> of may this year:
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-maintainers/2007-May/msg00986.html
> 
> And one more one week ago. Also he has been pinged several times through 
> bugzilla:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=235655
> 
> Thus I hereby ask formal permission from FESco to take gnome-applet-sensors 
> over from him, as required by:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/Policy/AWOL_Maintainers
> 
> Aaron also maintains:
> cfv
> feh
> gnome-applet-netspeed
> 
> Julian Sikorski has stated that he is willing to take over 
> gnome-applet-netspeed. Since I maintain imlib2 I'll take over feh as it 
> will be good to maintain atleast one application using it. I've no interest 
> in cfv, so I propose to orphan it.

I'd like to take cfv, I use it frequently and I need it for EL-5, too.
I was just going to request a branch from the maintainer.

Regards,
R.

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