Re: Datamash admin

[Shawn Wagner]

Yup, still have commit access to the repository!

(My copy with branches for various projects is at
https://github.com/shawnw/datamash fwiw)

On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 2:31 PM Tim Rice <trice@posteo.net> wrote:
>
> Hey Shawn,
>
> On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 12:37:35AM -0700, Shawn Wagner wrote:
> >Assaf gave me commit rights to the savannah repository a few years ago
> >when I was sending in a lot of patches (And then I promptly got
> >distracted by life and forgot about it for ages) that I think I still
> >have. I'm happy to blow the dust off my old contributions and merge
> >them in and go through the list archive looking for bugs that were
> >reported and maybe fix.
>
> That's awesome, thanks for the extra info and offering to look at those 
> issues reported over the last year or two.
>
>
> > I don't really want to volunteer for the official maintainer title though; 
> > much rather let someone else deal with making releases.
>
> That's fine. I've contacted maintainers(at)gnu.org, and nominated myself to 
> adopt datamash if Assaf doesn't come forward. I have enough room in my life 
> at the moment for an extra responsibility.
>
> I guess the first task on my plate will be to roll a new release to 
> consolidate any improvements made since 2020. (With 20/20 hindsight, I should 
> have gotten this rolling a few months ago so we could get v1.8 into Ubuntu 
> Jammy. Oh well.)
>
> ~ Tim