Re: [screen-devel] screen maintainer?

[Juergen Weigert]

Okey dokey, 

Thank you Micah for volunteering!
I am ready to step down and become Vice-Maintainer, I will 
continue to do my share of evil stress testing, and will do 
the next few official releases -- whenever we find
we built something that is worth a release. No doubt.

Micha is happy too with having you aboard, 
and confirmed that your plans make sense.

Oh, having one 'Micha' and one 'Micah' on the team 
may become confusing, but I think I can manage this :-)

Karl, is there any official ceremony for applying-to and 
handing-over maintainership?
Or do you just need to say "Agreed. Done."?

        thanks,
                Jw.

On Jun 11, 08 22:13:59 -0700, Micah Cowan wrote:
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> Juergen Weigert wrote:
> > On Jun 12, 08 12:59:46 -0500, Karl Berry wrote:
> >> And otherwise, we're looking for a new maintainer.  So if you are
> >> interested in taking care of screen going forward, please write me and
> >> we can discuss.
> > 
> > Frankly, I'd opt for finding a new maintainer. My time on screen is
> > too limited to do any good. Micha is developing new features at a steady
> > pace, but also under limited time.  
> > I believe we'd need someone to tend to bug reports, consoldiate patches
> > into some git or svn and care for regular releases.
> 
> GNU Screen holds a particular place in my heart. I'd volunteer for
> maintainership, but of course GNU Wget is already taking more than
> enough of my time. However, I'd be happy to pitch in with migrating the
> repo from CVS to a more modern VCS, such as git (I am very happy with
> Wget's own move to a distributed VCS, though we went with Mercurial for
> portability reasons that probably wouldn't apply so much for Screen),
> and could help with screening and applying patches. I've no time for
> serious development, but perhaps when you've found a real maintainer, I
> can volunteer as a sort of vice-maintainer, helping with the more
> boring, administrative aspects. ;) "tending to bug reports,
> consolidating patches", etc, is something I could help with; "care for
> regular releases" will have to be someone else's department, at least as
> far as actual leadership and ownership of the project is concerned.
> 
> BTW, advertising the need for developer help on Savannah was very
> effective for Wget; I'd recommend it for Screen (though, the barrier to
> entry is possibly higher for Screen).
> 
> - --
> Micah J. Cowan
> Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer,
> and GNU Wget Project Maintainer.
> http://micah.cowan.name/
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