Requesting FESco member permission for package takeover because of AWOL maintainer

Manuel Wolfshant wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro
Mon Jul 16 10:16:57 UTC 2007


Hans de Goede wrote:
> Dennis Gilmore wrote:
>> Once upon a time Monday 16 July 2007, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>> <resending with different subject because of lack of response.
>>>   Notice that according to the policy this does not need to be voted 
>>> on at
>>> the next Fesco meeting, I just need permission from a single FESco 
>>> member,
>>> Thanks!>
>>>
>>> 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
>>
>> Hans,  Im ok with you taking over gnome-applet-sensors
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Sounds ok to me also.  its there anyone who wants to maintain cfv?
>>
>> Dennis
>>
>
> Thanks.
>
> I've filed CVS admin requests for gnome-applet-sensors, 
> gnome-applet-netspeed and feh. I'll wait a bit for a new owner to step 
> up before orphaning cfv.
I'll take cfv if no one actually using it wishes to.

Manuel




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