Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] "task #14222: Submission of Ad Reaper"

[Paul Walker]

Hi Bob (and all)

Apologies for taking so long to reply; someone appears to have 
stolen a
few weeks while I wasn't looking. I've noticed that happening more 
as I
get older...

> > Did I miss something which means it's not been responded to? Or 
> > did
> > it just fall through the cracks?
> I am a terrible person because I rarely work on project 
> submissions.

I'm not sure that would qualify you for that description. :-)

> Very tiny things that are just a single shell script or two have 
> a
> high overhead because they have to be reviewed and maintained 
> and
> such.  And so on the basis of that submission being so small I 
> myself
> would have been thinking very hard about whether it was suitable 
> or
> not.

Yes, it did seem rather small; also very niche. I suspect the 
latter
isn't necessarily a disqualifier but it would make sense given a 
fixed
overhead that you want a package to be of a reasonable size and
utility. Thanks for being expanding on that so clearly.

> There has been a lot of discussion and some activity on the idea 
> of
> the GNU Project setting up a more hands-off self-service 
> software
> forge for hosting whatever the user wants much more like some of 
> the
> non-free commercial sites do now.  I think it will happen at 
> some
> point.

It's .. not exactly a crowded space, but it's also one with a 
number of
people already serving that role, so I can understand it's not top 
of
the priorities.

> Hope this helps to explain one of the possible reasons that 
> submission
> didn't get any traction.  Probably there was not an excess of 
> reviewer
> time and so that one just slipped through.  Which is definitely 
> a poor
> reflection on us as reviewers.  We should do better.

Definitely makes sense, I only really noticed it because I was 
checking
for stalled project submissions.

> That's one of the reasons I am excited to see that you are 
> taking an
> interest in helping out!  Perhaps you might subscribe to this 
> mailing
> list and contribute!  It would really help out. :-)

Sure, I'll go find the sign-up page. I'll also try my best to 
respond in
a more timely fashion next time. :-)

Thanks
Paul